The Life and Trials of Wilhelm Reich

In 1956 and 1960, the published books, research journals and bulletins of pioneering psychiatrist, research physician and scientist Wilhelm Reich were banned and burned in America by order
of a United States Federal Court.

This new documentary by Connecticut filmmakers Kevin Hinchey and Glenn Orkin—who had unprecedented access to Reich’s archives at Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine and who interviewed Reich’s co-workers and notable Reich scholars in Europe and America—is the first factually accurate documentary ever produced about Reich.

This film charts the dramatic events in Reich’s life and work which culminated in an act of censorship unprecedented in United States history. With the film currently screening at theaters and universities in North America, Europe and South Africa, the Del Mar Theater presents its California premiere.