Das wilde Leben (2007)

Director:

Achim Bornhak

Writers:

Dagmar Benke (story)
Achim Bornhak (co-writer)

Release Date:

1 February 2007 (Germany)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music

Plot:

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Male Frontal Nudity | Female Frontal Nudity | Drugs | Female Nudity

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Natalia Avelon	...	Uschi Obermaier
David Scheller	...	Dieter Bockhorn
Matthias Schweighöfer	...	Rainer Langhans
Friederike Kempter	...	Sabine
Alexander Scheer	...	Keith Richards
Victor Norén	...	Mick Jagger
Milan Peschel	...	Freiberg
Georg Friedrich	...	Lurchi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Petra Berndt	...	Uschis Mutter
Oliver Binge	...	Demonstrant
Klaus Bräuer
Inga Busch	...	Agentin
Mila da Veela	...	Stones-Groupie
Michael Falkenhagen	...	Polizeiwachtmeister
Martin Koch	...	Demonstrant
Valerie Lasserre	...	Angel
Uwagboe Rydl	...	Neger-Kalle
Jonathan Schuld	...	Demonstrant
Stefan Sieweke	...	Charly Watts
Sebastian Stielke	...	Journalist
Heike Warmuth	...	Barbara

Also Known As:

Eight Miles High! (Europe: English title)

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Australia:R

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Babelsberg Film

Quotes:

[first lines]
Uschi Obermaier: In Paris that summer, the students wrote "Power to the imagination" on the walls. In San Francisco they danced in the streets, and fought for what had become their way of life. And I was at home in Sendling, a suburb of Munich. I felt I died a slow and never-ending death that day...

Soundtrack:

Tränen lügen nicht

This film is rubbish!

This film describes itself as telling the story of Uschi Obermaier, a 1968 "icon" in the "student revolts". What it in fact shows is that she was nothing more than a girl with a good figure trying to make it out of small-town Bavaria. Apart from making money doing photo shoots and living in the Kommune I for a while, she did not do anything worthwhile for the movement. And this all the film cares to show us as well. Most of the film is actually based on her frustrating and uninteresting relationship with a guy from St.Pauli with whom she drives around in a van with for most of the film. Her thick accent is way too exaggerated, her non- acting tedious and the overall story predictable. The film is full of clichés from the 60s like free love and rock 'n roll and are not explored in any new or interesting way. Add to this the bad remake of the song 'Summer Wine" which is over-played incessantly during the film renders this a very poor 2 out of 10.