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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary The wild 60s: Munich teen Uschi Obermaier drives men wild, but also confuses them with her assertive demeanor. When she moves into the legendary Berlin ‘Kommune 1’ she begins a relationship with the leader Rainer Langhans. There she runs through a whirlwind of relationships and rises to become a coveted supermodel and icon of the young g...

Directed By: Akiz

Written By: Olaf Kraemer, Claus Peter Hant, Dagmar Benke, Martin Ritzenhoff, Uschi Obermaier, Akiz

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • MPI Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m

Das wilde Leben

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary The wild 60s: Munich teen Uschi Obermaier drives men wild, but also confuses them with her assertive demeanor. When she moves into the legendary Berlin ‘Kommune 1’ she begins a relationship with the leader Rainer Langhans. There she runs through a whirlwind of relationships and rises to become a coveted supermodel and icon of the young g...

Directed By: Akiz

Written By: Olaf Kraemer, Claus Peter Hant, Dagmar Benke, Martin Ritzenhoff, Uschi Obermaier, Akiz

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
32
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1 Review
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
50% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
32
10% Positive
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40% Mixed
4 Reviews
50% Negative
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63
The movie presents the surfaces of Obermaier's life but never lets us understand who she was.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Like most flower-power nostalgia trips, Eight Miles High has the irksome effect of reminding the audience -- whether too young or too square -- that it missed out on the grooviest moment in history, man. But as these things go, this one goes with flair.
By Nathan Lee FULL REVIEW
50
Deliciously dumb, reasonably well-made.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
38
Has little to offer beyond titillation and pretty landscapes.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
30
German supermodel Uschi Obermaier slept with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and all we get is this lousy biopic.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
20
One long tease -- not in a voyeuristic sense, since its heroine, as nakedly incarnated by pouty Polish sexpot Natalia Avelon, hides none of her obvious talents under a bushel.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
0
Stoned on the story's '60s-sex-bomb potential, Bornhak piles on the sex and forgets the bomb; the result is unaffecting filmmaking, as slack-jawed and superficial as its subject.
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Production Company Babelsberg Film, Neue Bioskop Film, On the Road, Studio Babelsberg
Release Date Jul 11, 2008
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.daswildeleben.de/
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Awards

New Faces Awards, Germany
• 2 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Undine Awards, Austria
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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