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.
Direction
Makavejev's fearless collision of documentary and fiction.
Editing
Jarring cuts between Reich's theories and Yugoslav absurdism.
Acting
Milena Dravić's ferocious commitment to dangerous material.
Director
Dušan Makavejev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in Yugoslavia for sixteen years; Makavejev was effectively exiled until 1988. The film had to be smuggled out in pieces.
Jackie Curtis and Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs appear as themselves, bridging NYC underground cinema with Eastern European dissident filmmaking.
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I was beginning to think I imagined this film. I’m glad other people remember it
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This is a great trailer!
@Muffinfordinner 11
I want to do a parody of this intro, but have it be about Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green. Narrator: I want to believe in Jewish Space Lasers, and Comrade Marjorie Taylor Green can lead the Way with our Fearless leader Donald J. Trump.
@JoaquinPhoenix-s3k 3
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