Filminstruktøren Henning Carlsen skildrer livet i kollektivet Maos Lyst anno 1970. I en brydningstid, hvor mange søger bort fra det etablerede samfunds normer, har seks mennesker oprettet deres eget minisamfund uden for Hellerup og taget fællesnavnet Kløvedal. Kollektivets beboere beretter om deres fællesskab, men tager også ud på fabrikker og landbrug for at få et indtryk af arbejdernes vilkår.
This documentary examines a feature of Danish life in the late '60s and early '70s: the political commune. In a series of stiff and unrevealing interviews with members of the Kloevedal Commune, "Mao's Pleasure," director Carlssen seeks to discover why they have chosen to live communally. Turning the tables on the director, members of the commune also interview people who live ordinary, middle-class lives, ostensibly to find out why they chose their "lifestyles." Other footage concerns the Annisse Commune, a less radical organization which predates the Kloevedal Commune by decades. A highlight of the film is an interview with a very old woman who lives with and talks chiefly with her cats.
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