Eight Miles High (original title: Das wilde Leben, lit. The Wild Life) is a 2007 German biographical motion picture, set in the 1960s and depicting the "wild life" of Uschi Obermaier, a West German sex symbol and icon of the era.
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Achim Bornhak |
| Written by | Dagmar Benke Achim Bornhak C. P. Hant Olaf Kraemer |
| Produced by | Ralph Brosche |
| Starring | Natalia Avelon |
| Cinematography | Benjamin Dernbecher |
| Edited by | Peter Przygodda |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Box office | $957,744[1] |
Plot
editObermaier enjoyed sexual freedom at the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin after being with the krautrock band Bröselpilze. In the Kommune, she becomes friendly with Rainer Langhans. The young woman from Munich gains employment as a model, and becomes a sex symbol and youth icon. Now a cover girl in Playboy magazine, she meets rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, while Italian film producer, Carlo Ponti, offers her a ten-year contract, but she declines: her freedom is more important than a contract.
During her intensive relationship with Keith Richards, she begins to recognize the dark side of the shiny glamour world she lives in: the isolation of the stars, and the groupie-populated milieux of anonymous hotel rooms — this is not her idea of life.
She finds new freedom in a relationship with the adventurer Dieter Bockhorn (David Scheller). They fall in love and go on a six-year road trip around the world. Later, Bockhorn dies in a motorcycle accident in Mexico.
Cast
edit- Natalia Avelon as Uschi Obermaier
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Rainer Langhans
- Victor Norén (singer of the Swedish band Sugarplum Fairy) as Mick Jagger
- Alexander Scheer as Keith Richards
- David Scheller as Dieter Bockhorn.
- Urs Rechn as "the knocker" Norbert Grupe
Production crew
edit- Directed by Achim Bornhak.
- Written by Achim Bornhak and Olaf Kraemer.
- Based on a work by C. P. Hant, Dagmar Benke and Olaf Kraemer
Filming locations
edit- Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Bavaria in Germany
- Goa, Jaipur, and Rajasthan in India
Soundtrack
editVille Valo and Natalia Avelon recorded a cover version of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood song Summer Wine for the soundtrack. A music video was also shot, featuring Valo and Avelon with the real Uschi Obermaier.
References
edit- ^ "Eight Miles High (2007)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
External links
edit- Official Movie Website
- Eight Miles High at IMDb
- ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Eight Miles High at AllMovie
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