Eight Miles High (film)

Eight Miles High
DVD box
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
Production company	Warner Bros.
Release date	1 February 2007 (2007-02-01)
Running time	114 min.
Country	Germany
Language	German

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.

Film Synopsis

For the actual biography, see Uschi Obermaier.

Obermaier 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

• 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

• 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

• Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Bavaria in Germany
• Goa, Jaipur, and Rajasthan in India

Soundtrack

Ville 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.

External links

• Official Movie Website
• Eight Miles High at IMDb
• Eight Miles High at AllMovie