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was banned in that country for the next 16 years. Makavejev was subsequently indicted there on criminal charges of "derision" towards "the state, its agencies, and representatives" after he made intemperate remarks to a West German newspaper about the ban. His exile from his home country lasted until
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on the street and masturbating his toy rifle. The scene is set to The Fugs' 1965 song "Kill for Peace". As part of the film's climax, the gun masturbation imagery is intercut with other orgasmic sequences. This segment highlights Reich's ideas that sexual frustration and violence are connected.
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groups about female sexual response. The Dodson sequences are relatively straightforward documentary interviews; Dodson's large scale drawing of a man masturbating dominates the background of the shots. This segment illustrates a freer attitude toward sexuality.
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into communist beliefs. She succeeds, with difficulty, in sexual consummation, but V.I. is unable to reconcile his inner conflicts and ends the encounter by decapitating her. Distraught, V.I. sings a
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into the American mainstream during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film shows a behind-the-scenes look at the publication, in which editor Jim Buckley casually consorts with his nude models.
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as a documentary part of the film. The soundtrack features another song by The Fugs, "I'm Gonna Kill Myself Over Your Dead Body", with Tuli Kupferberg satirically mimicking
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celebrity ice skater. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through
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Reich's daughter Eva (1924–2008) appears on camera, speaking about her father's work and the sickness of contemporary life.
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in 1971, but due to the state ban was shown only to a few selected audiences in Yugoslavia for the next several years.
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The film intercuts documentary footage and clips from other films — notably the Stalinist propaganda film
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This scene was a point of contention for censors. On UK video prints Buckley's penis is covered with
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discusses her experiences in drawing acts of masturbation, as well as her discussions within
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Shots of the incinerator in which Reich's books were burned in New York City are included.
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colors added in editing (the cinema version was unusually approved fully uncut).
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The film features a rare on-screen interview with neo-Reichian therapist
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convictions (and rejects the sexual advances of a worker) by pursuing a
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films, alluding to the montage era of film making in the Soviet Union.
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New York artist Nancy Godfrey was among a loose group called
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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
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After initial screenings, both in and out of Yugoslavia,
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 7th edition
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Index


Dušan Makavejev
Serbo-Croatian
Serbian
Dušan Makavejev
communist
sexuality
Wilhelm Reich
The Vow
Yugoslav
Soviet
montage
proletarian
Joseph Stalin
ice skater
Lenin
patronymic
class oppression
the West
Russian
François Villon
Bulat Okudzhava
Tuli Kupferberg
The Fugs
New Yorkers
Betty Dodson
consciousness raising
Plaster Casters
plaster casts
Jim Buckley

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