“This country broke my penis, but it couldn’t break my spirit.”

So says Jewish writer Gary Shteyngart in “ The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong, ” a new documentary from The New Yorker about the botched circumcision Shteyngart received as a 7-year-old Russian immigrant to the United States.

Told with humor, sensitivity and pain, the 20-minute film — shot almost entirely in black and white — is directed by Dana Ben-Ari, a documentarian whose previous film was “Breastmilk,” which The Cut describes as a “ gloriously graphic breast-feeding documentary .”

“The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong” explores Shteyngart’s early years in the United States, as well as his relationship to his body, which, as a child, is “just something I really hated,” he says in the film. The documentary is inspired by Shteyngart’s

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