Charlie's IQ of 68 suddenly rises to 185. Will he help himself?

Baker's assistant Charlie Gordon is mentally retarded, which doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't want to improve his life like everyone else. And because he excels in his amazing motivation to learn, science chooses him as the first human being whose intelligence is increased operationally. In the laboratory environment, the young man is given the task of writing a diary and also a companion: the mouse Algernon, who will be his control sample and sparring partner during the experiments. The experiment succeeds. Charlie not only invents improvers and uncovers thieves in the bakery, but even outsmarts the masterminds with his sharp intellect. However, high intelligence also brings with it greater doubts and loneliness. What will the genius robinson ghost do now? Was he just a trick in the hands of behavioral psychologists who misused him as a rat to test a hypothesis?

performer: Jan Potměšil
length of recording: 8 hours 20 minutes