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WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Directed by
Dušan Makavejev
Not Rated
1971
85m
Drama
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.6
87%
74%
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An homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater.
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Cast of WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Milena Dravić
Milena
Ivica Vidović
Vladimir Ilyich
Jagoda Kaloper
Jagoda
Tuli Kupferberg
US Soldier
Zoran Radmilović
Radmilović
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis
Miodrag Andrić
Soldier
Živka Matić
Landlady
Dragoljub Ivkov
Nikola Milić
Milan Jelić
Wilhelm Reich
Himself
Jim Buckley
Himself
Mikhail Gelovani
Joseph Stalin
Dušan Makavejev
Director / Writer / Producer
Svetozar Udovički
Producer
WR: Mysteries of the Organism Ratings & Reviews
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Margaret Hinxman
An outrageously funny and desperately serious examination of contemporary politico-sexual-psychological attitudes, drawn from the extreme theories of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, arguably the father of the permissive society.
Sunday Times (UK)
Dilys Powell
Does the nature of the material make it an important film? In my opinion only temporarily. The true quality of Makavejev's work lies in the fact that it is first-hand. It imitates nobody; it lives In its own eccentric world.
Time Out
Although it seemed like some kind of breakthrough at the time, Makavejev's film isn't improving with age.
Apollo Guide
Brian Webster
The title is all you need to know that this film is out of the ordinary.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Makavejev's defining work is one of eerily appropriate juxtapositions, fact and fiction, old footage and new
Film4
Film4 Staff
Audacious Cold War Yugoslavian essay establishes the relationship between sex, power and liberation.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A truly weird film.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Funny, funny.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's worth seeing because it gets one's juices flowing whether buying into the martyred Reich's theories or not.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An ideological juggling act, with Makavejev at the center, deadpan, yet always with his eyes slightly widened at the bizarre variety of human experience.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Indeed, it's hard to think of a headier mix of fiction and nonfiction, or sex and politics, than this brilliant 1971 Yugoslav feature by Dusan Makavejev.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The wittiest and possibly truest thing in it is an analysis of Stalinist propaganda films as displaced pornography.
New York Times
David Bienstock
It is no wonder then that the film, which begins by proclaiming that life should be joyful, turns out to be one of the gloomiest of recent memory.
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