W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971)

Directors

Dušan Makavejev

Cast

Milena Dravić, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Zoran Radmilovic, Jackie Curtis, Miodrag Andric, Zivka Matic, Jim Buckley, Betty Dodson, Mikheil Gelovani, Nancy Godfrey, Wilhelm Reich, Dragoljub Ivkov, Nikola Milic, Milan Jelic

The story

The film intercuts documentary footage and clips from other films—notably the Stalinist propaganda film The Vow (1946)—with an imaginative and satirical narrative about a highly political Yugoslav woman who seduces a visiting Soviet celebrity ice skater. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through montage. The woman, Milena, violates her proletarian convictions (and rejects the sexual advances of a worker) by pursuing a Joseph Stalin-like celebrity ice skater Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin's first name and patronymic), who represents both class…

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