![]() The mythologizing of the ’60s gets a lusty, Germanic twist in “Eight Miles High,” a full-bodied take on the life of the world-class sex kitten Uschi Obermaier (Natalia Avelon). ![]() Along the way, she was also involved with a radical commune, was on the cover of Playboy, traveled the world with a playboy in the bus he constructed for her and gave a face to the word Eurotrash. She was Germany’s uber-groupie, a provincial Bavarian girl who lucked her way onto a magazine cover, became a famous model, slept with Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger, and had something a little more than that with Keith Richards. Later, after experiencing the darker side of fame during a relationship with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and realizing that she can no longer reconcile her outlook on life with living like a common groupie, the outspoken hippie nymph embarks on a quest to find eternal love with charismatic globe-trotter Dieter Bockhorn, the owner of Hamburg’s red-light district. But even when offered the opportunity to become an international film star by Italian producer Carlo Ponti, Obermaier refuses to trade her freedom for fleeting fame. All of that would quickly change, however, as Obermaier entered into a heated affair with leader Rainer Langhans (Matthias Schweighofer), appeared on the covers of Playboy and Stern, and became an icon of the young generation. Until she arrived at the legendary Berlin “Kommune 1,” Obermaier (Natalia Avelon) was just your typical German teen. A music video was also shot, featuring Valo and Avelon with the real Uschi Obermaier.ORIGINAL RELEASE TITLE: Das Wilde Leben (The Wild Side)Įight Miles High: A docudrama about the wild lifestyle of ’70s popstar & fashion icon Uschi ObermaierĪ Munich teen achieves worldwide fame as the embodiment of sexual freedom in the 1960s after romancing some of the biggest rock stars on the planet and rising to stardom as a successful supermodel in this biographical musical drama centering on the eventful life of Uschi Obermaier. Ville Valo and Natalia Avelon recorded a cover version of the Nancy Sinatra/ Lee Hazlewood song Summer Wine for the soundtrack. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Bavaria in Germany.Written by Achim Bornhak and Olaf Kraemer.Urs Rechn as "the knocker" Norbert Grupe. ![]() Victor Norén (singer of the Swedish band Sugarplum Fairy) as Mick Jagger.Matthias Schweighöfer as Rainer Langhans.Later, Bockhorn dies in a motorcycle accident in Mexico. They fall in love and go on a six-year road trip around the world. ![]() She finds new freedom in a relationship with the adventurer Dieter Bockhorn (David Scheller). 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.ĭuring 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. The young woman from Munich gains employment as a model, and becomes a sex symbol and youth icon. In the Kommune, she becomes friendly with Rainer Langhans. Obermaier enjoyed sexual freedom at the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin after being with the krautrock band Bröselpilze. For the actual biography, see Uschi Obermaier. ![]()
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