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WR:Mysteries of the Organism

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Eroticism · Women · Politics/Conspiracy · Comedy · Human Rights

CountryYugoslavia,United States
Production Year1971
Running Time85min
Format35mm
ColorB&W

Program Note

Filmed in Yugoslavia and the US, this frenetic black comedy pitting sexual expression against political repression is Makavejev′s most famous film. The "WR" of the title refers to Wilhelm Reich, the sex theorist who was a center of controversy in the postwar years and whose experiments in socio-psychology and sexual responses led to his persecution in America. His writings were banned for many years, and Makavejev′s interest in Reich and the quest for sexual enlightenment were the impetus for this film. Radically juxtaposing fiction and documentary material, it combines the affair between a sexually liberated Yugoslavian beauty and a repressed Russian figure skater, scenes of sexual practice in America, an examination of the life and ideas of Wilhelm Reich. Both Stalinist socialism and Western capitalism are depicted as spoilers of erotic joy in this often-explicit film.

Director

Dusan Makavejev

The sixth edition of Pusan International Film Festival presents ′ A Tribute to Dusan Makavejev, ′ showing Makavejev ′ s three renowned films; W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Sweet Movie (1974) and the latest Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993). This program will be a chance to look at some of his masterpieces and understand the film world of Dusan Makavejev. One of the most important filmmakers in world cinema, Dusan Makavejev was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1932. He has witnessed the disintegration of the monarchy, ravaging by the Nazis, resistance and civil wars, liberation and domination by the Russians, Tito ′ s break with Stalin, and now the dismemberment of his homeland. The core of his nomadic career is LIBERATION- from sexual repression, political suppression, and cultural oppression in all forms. He interrogates ideologies, debunks myths, and challenges sanctions on all fronts, satirizing the hegemonies of both capitalism and communism. Dusan Makavejev made four films for the Kino Klub in Belgrade (1953-1958), became an award-winning documentarian with sixteen films between 1958-1964, and over the next six years (1965-1971) made four features which brought him international attention: Man Is Not a Bird (1965) aims to ironize the working class; Love Affair, or the Case of a Missing Switchboard Operator (1967) focuses on a love story between a telephone operator and a rat exterminator; Innocence Unprotected (1968) combines a 1942 semi-documentary of the same name with images of the participants twenty-five years later; and W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), the most famous film based on the theories of sexual psychologist Wilhelm Reich, was an international hit but was judged so "Subversive" in Yugoslavia that it was not officially shown there until 1986. Since then, he has made six more features abroad in France, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Holland, and Germany: Sweet Movie, Montenegro, The Coca Cola Kid, Manifesto, Gorilla Bathes at Noon, and A Hole in the Soul.

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