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WR: Mysteries of the Organism

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

May 10, 1971
85 min
DramaFantasyComedy
6.1/ 10
87 votes

Overview

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.

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6.1/10
87 votes
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6.7/10
5,524 votes
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87%
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"The film they said we would never see..."

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TelepoolNeoplanta Film

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