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TMDB Rating 6
IMDB Rating 7.6

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Status: Released

Average Rating: 6

Release Date: Jun 1, 2009

Rating: 2009-06-01

Run Time: 1h 29m

Original Language: English

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Production Countries: Sweden

Production Companies: ARTE GEIE , BBC Storyville , DR-Dokumentar , Eight Millimetres , SVT Dokumentär , Svenska Filminstitutet


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Synopsis

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were hailed as wonderful fatherly beneficence. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind like Gajdusek's lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? (Storyville)


Main Cast

Michael Alpers

Michael Alpers

Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

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Warwick Anderson

Warwick Anderson

Professor in Medical Anthropology

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Sena Anua

Sena Anua

Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

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Carleton Gajdusek

Carleton Gajdusek

Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

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Robert Gajdusek

Robert Gajdusek

Brother

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Robert Gallo

Robert Gallo

Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV

Age : 87 | Popularity : 9%

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks

Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Lovisa Mbagintao

Lovisa Mbagintao

Secretary

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Crew

Department Role Name
Production Production Manager
Lars Heleander
Lars Heleander
Producer
Jonas Kellagher
Jonas Kellagher
Directing Director
Bosse Lindquist
Bosse Lindquist
Editing Editor
Bernhard Winkler
Bernhard Winkler
Writing Writer
Bosse Lindquist
Bosse Lindquist
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