The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
101 audience votes
Key crew
- Bojana MarijanOriginal Music Composer
- Dušan MakavejevDirector
- Dušan MakavejevWriter
Cast
- Milena DravićMilena
- Ivica VidovićVladimir Ilyich
- Jagoda KaloperJagoda
- Tuli KupferbergUS Soldier
- Zoran RadmilovićRadmilović
- Jackie CurtisJackie Curtis
- Miodrag AndrićSoldier
- Živka MatićLandlady
- Dragoljub IvkovCast
- Nikola MilićCast
- Milan JelićCast
- Wilhelm ReichHimself
Stills
Themes
yugoslaviaraincloudsex educationfigure skatingpsychiatristavant-gardesexual repressioncommunism