Igor SADREEV
Игорь САДРЕЕВ
Igor SADREEV
Germany, 2024, 61mn 
documentary
Radi chego ya plyl protiv techenia
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Ради чего я плыл против течения

 

 Why I swam against the current / Why I Swam Upstream

 Pourquoi j'ai nagé à contre courant

 
Directed by : Igor SADREEV (Игорь САДРЕЕВ)
Writing credits : Igor SADREEV (Игорь САДРЕЕВ)
Cinematography : Mikhail ORKIN (Михаил ОРКИН)
Produced by : Aleksandr URZHANOV (Александр УРЖАНОВ)
Companies : Narra; Берег / Bereg (Rive)
 
Sites : artdoc.media, IMDb

Plot synopsis
A film about the first Soviet sex educator Igor Kon, the story of the Soviet and Russian sociologist, psychologist, Doctor of Philosophy Igor Kon.
Igor Kon is the first sexologist in the history of our country, a scientist who in the 1980s was not afraid to talk about topics taboo in the USSR. After the collapse of the Union, he continued his research: in the 1990s he studied the topic of homosexuality, and in the 2000s he studied gender roles.
 

commentaries
Un documentaire consacré au premier sexologue soviétique, Igor Kon, récompensé lors d'un festival, Daria DERGACHEVA, Globalvoices, 2025
 

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