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31 December 1971 (Norway)
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A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot...
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2 wins
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Funny and thoughtprovoking...
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Milena Dravic | ... | Milena |
| Ivica Vidovic | ... | Vladimir Ilyich |
| Jagoda Kaloper | ... | Jagoda |
| Tuli Kupferberg | ... | US Soldier |
| Zoran Radmilovic | ... | Radmilovic |
 | Jackie Curtis | ... | Herself |
| Miodrag Andric | ... | Soldier |
| Zivka Matic | ... | Landlady |
| Dragoljub Ivkov | ||
| Nikola Milic | ||
| Milan Jelic | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jim Buckley | ... | Himself |
| Betty Dodson | ... | Herself |
| Mikheil Gelovani | ... | Joseph Stalin (archive footage) |
| Nancy Godfrey | ... | Herself |
| Wilhelm Reich | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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| Dusan Makavejev | |||
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| Dusan Makavejev | ||
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| Dusan Makavejev | .... | producer | |
| Svetozar Udovicki | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Bojana Marijan | |||
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| Aleksandar Petkovic | |||
| Predrag Popovic | (as Pega Popovic) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Ivanka Vukasovic | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Dragoljub Ivkov | |||
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| Mirjana Ostojic | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Zorica Randic | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Srdjan Ilic | .... | unit manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Bojana Marijan | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Miodrag Petrovic-Sarlo | .... | sound editor (as Sarlo) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- T&O Film (1972) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Cinema 5 Distributing (USA) (subtitled)
- Criterion Collection, The (2007) (USA) (DVD)
- Facets Multimedia Distribution
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"W.R. - Misterije organizma" - Yugoslavia (original title)
"W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism" - USA (DVD title)
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84 min | Sweden:85 min
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Included in Roger Ebert's Great Movies.See more »
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References The Undefeated (1969)See more »
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Makavejev was always one of the clowns of the Third Cinema, and WR, his masterpiece, is no exception. Makavejev interweaves fiction, documentary, and found audio and video clips (a Stalinist propaganda film, electro-shock treatment footage) to create a fantastically bizarre but intelligent discussion of both the orgone energy theory of Wilhelm Reich and the relationship between Yugoslavia and the USSR in a post-Stalinist era.
I know. It sounds tedious, but it isn't. In fact, it's really fascinating. Among the clips Makavejev (a film theoretician in his own right, WR harkens back to the pre-Stalinist era of Soviet Montage) assembles are footage of performance art by the Yippie poet/singer Tuli Kapferberg and documentary clips of Jim Buckley, an editor for Screw Magazine, getting a mold of his penis made.
WR is bizarre, dogmatic, and at times, hard to watch, but having seen it twice now, I've come to appreciate its ways. By the time Vladimir breaks into song at the film's end, you'll be smiling too.