Stars: Natalia Avelon, Matthias Bundschuh, Inka Friedrich, Lisa-Marie Koroll, Heiner Lauterbach, Junis Marlon, Jacob Matschenz, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Marie-Lou Sellem | Written by Hans G. Raeth, Felix Starck | Directed by Marc Rothemund
Here in Germany, we headed back into what has been described as a “soft” lockdown on Monday. But before this, as it was my wedding anniversary, and as we had a babysitter for the first time since baby number 2 was delivered by the stork, we decided to get down our local cinema, while we could. My wife and I (and 4 other people) saw the German language film Es ist zu deinem Besten (It is For Your Own Good) and it was rather fun.
I appreciate this is going to be rather niche, given this is an English language site, but as I physically went to the cinema I feel this needs to be celebrated, given what is going on in the world.
Here in Germany, we headed back into what has been described as a “soft” lockdown on Monday. But before this, as it was my wedding anniversary, and as we had a babysitter for the first time since baby number 2 was delivered by the stork, we decided to get down our local cinema, while we could. My wife and I (and 4 other people) saw the German language film Es ist zu deinem Besten (It is For Your Own Good) and it was rather fun.
I appreciate this is going to be rather niche, given this is an English language site, but as I physically went to the cinema I feel this needs to be celebrated, given what is going on in the world.
- 11/4/2020
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
- Groupies. If you are a rock star you've got to love them. While good looks and randomness can momentarily get a groupie into celeb wonderland, to remain there, it takes plenty of hard work. Back in the day when models became bed fellows, and then stars in their own right and sometimes even parlaying it into a political activist type of career. I'm not sure where Uschi Obermaier ranks in terms of popularity when comparing to Warhol subjects Nico or "Edie" Sedgwick (on which Factory Girl was based upon) or when comparing to musician arm candy like Pattie Boyd and Bebe Buell (Liv Tyler's mom), but apparently her story was a profitable biopic at the German box office. Eight Miles High sees actress Natalia Avelon (who'll next appear in an Uwe Boll project called Far Cry) play the Obermaier. Dokument Films releases in NYC and then L.A.
- 7/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
You are to be forgiven if the name Uschi Obermaier doesn't ring a bell, but she is remembered in some circles as a 1960s German sex symbol, model and political radical who is said to have slept with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix.
Achim Bornhak's "Eight Miles High" is a shallow account of Obermaier's drug- and booze-fueled early life. It follows Obermaier from the Munich suburb where she grew up (her...
Achim Bornhak's "Eight Miles High" is a shallow account of Obermaier's drug- and booze-fueled early life. It follows Obermaier from the Munich suburb where she grew up (her...
- 7/11/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Like a shapelier Forrest Gump, the German model Uschi Obermaier had a knack for witnessing history without ever affecting it. A close consort of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and the leaders of Germany's radical left, she was a poster child for the counterculture of the '60s and '70s, doffing her clothes for the covers of news magazines and lending a touch of glamour to political protests. The trouble for Achim Bornhak's biopic Eight Miles High is that, apart from being famous, Obermaier doesn't appear to have actually done much. As played by Polish-born newcomer Natalia Avelon, she's a shallow dilettante in thrall to ideas beyond her ken, Marianne Faithfull without the talent. At times, Bornhak shows an awareness of his heroine's vapidity. She steals away from the grungy anti-capitalists in Munich's Kommune 1 to apply a touch of eye shadow; going without clothes is one thing, going without.
- 7/10/2008
- by Sam Adams
- avclub.com
Dokument Films, the MPI Media' Group'ss new independent film label, has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). The film, starring Natalia Avelon and slated for release next year, recounts the life of Uschi Obermaier, a small town girl from rural Bavaria who became a '60s fashion icon and companion of The Rolling Stones. MPI's Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema, repping the film.
- 11/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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