Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation...
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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... See more »
Soundtracks
"Summer Wine"
(Lee Hazlewood (as L. Hazlewood)) Performed by Ville Valo and Natalia Avelon with kind permission of German Fried Music c/o Transamerika Musikverlag KG Germany (P) 2006 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH / A Warner Music Group Company Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH / A Warner Music Group Company
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