Das wilde Leben (2007)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Achim Bornhak

Writers:

Dagmar Benke (story)
Achim Bornhak (co-writer)
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Release Date:

1 February 2007 (Germany)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music

Plot:

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Male Frontal Nudity | Female Frontal Nudity | Drugs | Female Nudity

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Natalia Avelon	...	Uschi Obermaier
David Scheller	...	Dieter Bockhorn
Matthias Schweighöfer	...	Rainer Langhans
Friederike Kempter	...	Sabine
Alexander Scheer	...	Keith Richards
Victor Norén	...	Mick Jagger
Milan Peschel	...	Freiberg
Georg Friedrich	...	Lurchi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Petra Berndt	...	Uschis Mutter
Oliver Binge	...	Demonstrant
Klaus Bräuer
Inga Busch	...	Agentin
Mila da Veela	...	Stones-Groupie
Michael Falkenhagen	...	Polizeiwachtmeister
Martin Koch	...	Demonstrant
Valerie Lasserre	...	Angel
Uwagboe Rydl	...	Neger-Kalle
Jonathan Schuld	...	Demonstrant
Stefan Sieweke	...	Charly Watts
Sebastian Stielke	...	Journalist
Heike Warmuth	...	Barbara

Directed by
Achim Bornhak

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Dagmar Benke		story
Achim Bornhak		co-writer
Claus Peter Hant		story
Olaf Kraemer		book
Olaf Kraemer		screenplay
Uschi Obermaier		autobiography

Produced by
Wolfgang Behr	....	executive producer
Ralph Brosche	....	line producer
Karsten Brünig	....	line producer
Philip Evenkamp	....	line producer
Dietmar Güntsche	....	producer
Eberhard Junkersdorf	....	producer
Henning Molfenter	....	co-producer
Dileep Singh Rathore	....	line producer
Charlie Woebcken	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Alexander Hacke

Cinematography by
Benjamin Dernbecher

Film Editing by
Peter Przygodda
Sebastian Schultz

Casting by
Uwe Bünker
Kanchan Ghosh
Silke Koch
Suse Marquardt
Karen Wendland

Production Design by
Eduard Krajewski

Art Direction by
Abid T.P.

Set Decoration by
Sonal Choudhary
Anette Ingerl

Costume Design by
Petra Kray

Makeup Department
Georg Korpas	....	special makeup effects artist: dental work
Lena Lazzarotto	....	makeup artist
Heike Merker	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Dirk Gornickel	....	production manager: India
Emmanuel Pappas	....	production manager
Bhawani Singh	....	production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lars Gmehling	....	second assistant director
Tina Rexilius	....	third assistant director
Deepti Seshadri	....	second assistant director
Mahaveer Singh Shaktawat	....	assistant director: India
Mario Striehn	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Marion Buddenhagen	....	assistant set decorator
Julika Kanitz	....	assistant production designer
Sonja Möginger	....	property master
Waimann Oliver	....	painter
Natalie Strohmaier	....	assistant production designer
Dhruv Tripathi	....	property master
Poonam Wahi	....	set dresser
Hayo Wolfram	....	property master

Sound Department
André Bendocchi-Alves	....	dialogue editor
André Bendocchi-Alves	....	sound designer
André Bendocchi-Alves	....	supervising sound editor
Claudia Enzmann	....	dialogue editor
Claudia Enzmann	....	sound designer
Sven Mevissen	....	sound effects editor
Jörn Poetzl	....	foley artist
Sebastian Riegel	....	boom operator
Benjamin Rosenkind	....	sound re-recording mixer
Philipp Sellier	....	foley editor
Philipp Sellier	....	foley recordist
Gunnar Voigt	....	sound mixer

Visual Effects by
Alex Lemke	....	visual effects
Lutz Lemke	....	main title designer & animator

Camera and Electrical Department
Reiner Bajo	....	still photographer
Oliver Haas	....	lighting best boy
Tobias Kownatzki	....	second assistant camera: second unit
Susanne Kurz	....	additional cinematographer
Christoph Nickel	....	gaffer
Michael Rathgeber	....	second assistant camera: Germany
Helen Sabatzki	....	assistant camera: second unit
Nina Scheele	....	assistant camera: germany

Editorial Department
Travis Dutch	....	tape to film colorist

Transportation Department
Ilja Kloppenburg	....	driver: cast

Other crew
Vans Pradeep Singh Rathore	....	location manager
Dr. Hans Radau	....	legal advisor
Steffen Sommer	....	researcher
Jona Wirbeleit	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Babelsberg Film
• Neue Bioskop Film
• On the Road
• Studio Babelsberg

Distributors

• Fox-Warner (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• MPI (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Seven Films (2007) (Greece) (all media)

Other Companies

• 40° Filmproduktion  sound post-production
• BKM  funding
• FilmFernsehFonds Bayern  funding
• Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)  funding
• Floris' Filmcatering  catering
• Grip Works  grip rental (India)
• Mecon Media Concept  payroll service
• Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg  funding
• Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)  funding
• Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne  funding

Also Known As:

Eight Miles High! (Europe: English title)

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Australia:R

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Babelsberg Film

Quotes:

[first lines]
Uschi Obermaier: In Paris that summer, the students wrote "Power to the imagination" on the walls. In San Francisco they danced in the streets, and fought for what had become their way of life. And I was at home in Sendling, a suburb of Munich. I felt I died a slow and never-ending death that day...

Soundtrack:

Tränen lügen nicht

For those who missed the mythical 60s

A wonderful rendering of the 60s. If you grew up like me with the 1968 revolution as a mythical era, this film will make you jubilate. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, radical thinking, revolutionaries, and the research of freedom, pleasure and new horizons. Freeing of the mind, freeing of the body… In her small town in Bavaria, Obermaier feels the revolution pounding in her bones and can't stay in place in her confined, old-fashioned home. Listening to rock music is her escape but it simply is not enough. She takes off and lives in an activist commune for some time before becoming a lover of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and marrying a rich adventurer and traveling the world with him. A lively portrait of strong-willed Obermaier, her rebelliousness and search for unbound freedom. "Don't dream your life, live your dream" is a motto that appears in the film and could not apply better. Uschi appears unstoppable, ready to conquer the world, explore the confines of freedom. Inspiring.