W.R. - Misterije organizma

"The film they said we would never see..."

May 10 1971 Not Rated 1h 24m
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

Plot

A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression. Also known as W.R. The Mysteries of the Organism in English subtitled version. Was banned in Yugoslavia shortly after it was made.

Written by

Dusan Makavejev

Directed by

Dusan Makavejev

Cast

Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper

Crew

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Production Countries

Yugoslavia, Germany

Production Companies

Neoplanta Film, Telepool

Languages

English, Deutsch

Awards

3 wins

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