The American Soldier (1970) R.W. Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions) in his surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism. Dušan Makavejev opened his 1971 satirical film W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism with documentary coverage of Reich and his development of orgone accumulators, combining this with other imagery and a fictional sub-plot in a collage mocking sexual and political authorities. Pushing his themes of sexual liberation to their boiling point, Yugoslavian art-house provocateur Dušan Makavejev followed his international sensation WR: Mysteries of the Organism with this full-throated shriek in the face of bourgeois complacency and movie watching.
Fassbinder ... Sweet Movie - Dušan Makavejev (1974) by Dong Yitang. 1:24:28. Directed by: Dusan Makavejev. Mysteries of the Organism (1971) - Dusan Makavejev by Dong Yitang.
"; Richard Porton on Dušan Makavejev's Wr: Mysteries of the Organism (1971); Shigehiko Hasumi: "Stated briefly, my hypothesis is that the medium of film has not yet truly incorporated sound as an essential component of its composition. What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Title: WR: Mysteries of the Organism Year: 1971 Runtime: 84 min Director: Dusan Makavejev Writer: Dusan Makavejev Actors: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg Plot: A homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater.
His work, deeply rooted in his native land’s experience, persistently defied the political and sexual taboos of his time and invited censorship in dozens of countries.
Özet. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) received a thirteen-minute standing ovation as well as the Luis Buñuel Award at Cannes & was later lauded as a subversive masterpiece & as “the flagship of ‘philosophical cinema.’” Francis Ford Coppola invited him to direct Apocalypse Now. W.R. Dusan Makavejev. Featuring: Dusan Makavejev. ... Griffith was a Marxist!
… His films, like 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism,' were known for nudity and explicit sex and frequently banned by authorities. Underpinned by the theories of controversial psychologist Wilhelm Reich, this art-house favorite uses sexual exploration as a means of political dissent. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored. - Director: Dušan Makavejev - IMDb user rating: 6.9 - Votes: 4,133 - Metascore: data not available - Runtime: 84 min. Dušan Makavejev (1932–2019) is by far the premier figure in Yugoslavian film history. 1:37:44 . Channel 4 used to show scandalous foreign films in the 1980s like Themroc and Wr: Mysteries of the Organism.