“Sex in the Soviet Union: Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind,” is presented by Chad Gracia a Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner and it is his new film that explores how authoritarianism can pervert human sexuality. This story is through the lens of Dr. Mikhail Stern, who was the first sexologist in USSR; where he had been working at this small clinic all his life trying to fight against ignorance about sex and sexual fear among people living in soviet society.
Dr. Stern was born during the Russian Revolution, survived Stalin’s “Jewish Doctors’ Plot” when he narrowly escaped execution in 1953 and then sent to Gulag after a famous show trial staged by KGB operatives acting on behalf of Politburo members who wanted him silenced because they feared what knowledge he might have acquired there could be used against them later; Stern only managed to emigrate out from under their watchful eye thanks partly due international campaign led by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir.
While incarcerated at one point or another throughout four decades (from 1974 until his release date), Dr. Stern started gathering notes on the history of sexuality within the Soviet Union as well as focusing around some individuals whose lives embodied different aspects representing horrors associated with it too.
These characters include Alexandra Kollontai first ever female ambassador since the dawn modern era period who also served as an iron-willed general fighting for sexual utopia creation within new communist state; two men married openly being aware that they were both gay during twenties when homosexuality had not yet been criminalized anywhere else but Russia alone; young girl resisting.
Lavrentiy Beria’s rape attempt which led her into being killed instead anyway due to such act causing outrage among authorities concerned about reputation saving face before world community outraged response would ensue over another innocent victim falling prey under hands either directly or indirectly controlled by soviet regime etc.
We show these stories on screen through re-enactments but sticking closely to primary sources according Dr. Stern’s records because this helps us make them more human and relatable all which illuminate not only totalitarianism USSR but challenges faced by today’s world.
After being freed from jail, Dr. Stern took up residence in Amsterdam where he wrote the book that inspired this film before being murdered during a brutal sexual assault; we will solve what happened next in another movie made by our team.
The life story of Dr. Stern has implications for understanding how tyranny persists in the minds even those who fight against it as well as various complexities within the human soul.
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