Dusan Makavejev's first features, Man Is Not a Bird and Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, explored the still-puritanical nature of human relationships in a "post-revolutionary" society, using a collage style in which documentary confronts narrative head-on. WR: Mysteries of the Organism extracts his style several degrees further to the theme of World Revolution and Wilhelm Reich. Albert Johnson wrote on the occasion of WR's debut at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1971: "The film's aim is amusement and has been described as a fantasy on the Fascism and Communism of human bodies, a summary of information about the political life of human genitals, and a proclamation of the pornographic essence of any system of authority and power over others...Makavejev has said that `if you don't leave the cinema after five minutes of this film, you become the film's accomplice.'" Among the elements in Makavejev's bold and funny construct are Tuli Kupferberg, a session with a plaster-caster, interviews and documentation on Reichian therapy, the ghost of Stalin, and a narrative fiction about a Yugoslavian beautician whose assaults on a sexually repressed Soviet ice-skating champion result in a violent confirmation of one of Reich's theses on Stalinist puritanism. Due to Soviet pressure, WR was not released in Yugoslavia and Makavejev made Sweet Movie and succeeding films in the West.