WR: Mysteries of the Organism

• W.R. - Misterije organizma
• Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
• Yugoslavia, West Germany
• 1971
• Director: Dušan Makavejev
• 84 min
• 35mm
• German Dub Version
• with Nikola Milić, Jagoda Kaloper, Jackie Curtis

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 WR: Mysteries of the Organism 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.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Werkstattkino