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W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
SERBIA · 1971

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Dušan Makavejev
sexual liberation Wilhelm Reich communist ideology psychoanalysis counterculture
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Synopsis

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.