The film tracks her restless life from a small town girl in rural Bavaria to a fast-living fashion icon in Munich from free-loving companion of the Rolling Stones to ultimately becoming the embodiment of the 60s generation of sex, drugs, and rocknroll. A music video was also shot, featuring Valo and Avelon with the real Uschi Obermaier. 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben) tells the incredible true story of European wild-child 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 Eight Miles High lyrics : Eight miles high And when you touch down You'll find that it's Stranger than known Signs in the street That say where you're goin' Are somewhere Just being their own Nowhere is There warmth to be found Among those afraid Of losing their ground Rain gray town Known for its sound In places Small faces unbound Round the.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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