The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld was released in 2000 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000) an average rating of 55%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 60% and users giving an average score of 60%.
With a score of 55%, The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2000, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2000 with similar scores include films like Miss Congeniality, All the Pretty Horses and 28 Days.
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