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WR-- mysteries of the organism / Original Serbo-Croatian title: W.R.--misterije organizma Title from container: Dušan Makavejev's WR-- mysteries of the organism Mysteries of the organism W.R. : mysteries of the organism - Director-approved special edition. , Yugoslavia Germany - 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) - plastic 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion collection ; 389 . - Criterion collection ; 389. .

Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Distributed theatrically by Janus Films and Cinema 5. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Dušan Makavejev; audio commentary assembled from Raymond Durgnat's 1999 book on the film; "Hole in the soul," Makavejev's 1994 tragicomic autobiographical short film, originally made for the BBC; new and archival video interviews with Makavejev; an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Photographers, Pega Popović, Aleksandar Petković ; art director, Dragoljub Ivkov ; editor, Ivanka Vukasović ; hymn writer and singer, Bulat Okudžava ; English adaptation, Gillmor Workshop. Photographers, Pega Popović, Aleksandar Petković ; art director, Dragoljub Ivkov ; editor, Ivanka Vukasović ; hymn writer and singer, Bulat Okudžava ; English adaptation, Gillmor Workshop.

Milena Dravić, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidović, Zoran Radmilović, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis, Miodrag Andrić. Živka Matić, Dragoljub Ivkov, Nikola Milić, Milan Jelić.

This documentary-fiction film 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. Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, this art-house smash is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.

For mature audiences only.


DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.


In English and Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croatian with optional English subtitles or optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

Luis Buñuel Award, Cannes Film Festival, 1971.

ISBN: 1934121584 9781934121580

Standard No.: 715515024228

Publisher. No.: CC1697D Criterion Collection

Source: Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com

Subjects--Personal Names:
Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957 --Drama.
Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sexual freedom--Yugoslavia--Drama.
Sex customs--Yugoslavia--Drama.
Women--Sexual behavior--Yugoslavia--Drama.
Sex customs.
Sexual freedom.
Women--Sexual behavior.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Yugoslavia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Motion pictures, Yugoslavian.
Foreign films--Yugoslavia.
Documentary films.
Documentary-style films.
Drama.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Erotic films.
Experimental films.
Documentary-style films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Erotic--Feature.
Experimental--Feature.
Documentary--Feature.
Films expérimentaux.
Docufictions.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.

LC Class. No.: PN1997 / . W275 2007x

Dewey Class. No.: 791.436538 / W659

National Library of Medicine Call No.: CC1697D / Criterion Collection