Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) Uschi Obermaier is certainly a very controversial character. I thing the best term to describe her would be "society slut". She loved the company of very important or very rich people and if she had enough of one man and sees a chance to be with a more powerful man, she would not hesitate. So, even if I despise the character, I can somewhat see why they would make a film about her and also why this film is actually pretty well-known, also outside of Germany. But that does not mean it's a good movie. The first problem is Natalia Avalon who is neither a good actress nor a good singer and I have no idea why she was cast here. i guess because she is fairly attractive and wasn't scared to show full frontal nudity.The story is not really great either I have to say, but it's not entirely bad either. However, the by far best thing about this 110 minute film is the makeup. They did a really good job on Schweighöfer's character and lets not say he gave a good performance. He certainly did not. All the makeup and Langhans' unique looks did the job on him. And in the end, the makeup on Keuth Richard was spot-on as well. So I am sort-of okay with the 2 German Film Award nominations that this movie received. The writer and director here is Achim Bornhak, but there is nothing more to say about him. Even here in Germany, he is pretty much unknown and this is the only famous film he worked on. Finally, a thumbs-up for Georg Friedrich who plays well as always. But his character was too small to make up for all the negative aspects in this movie. Not recommended.

TxMike Saw this on Netflix streaming movies. Much of the movie is in German with English subtitles, but some of it is in English.Uschi Obermaier was (is?) apparently a real person who joined in with what we would call the hippie free-love movement in 1960s Germany. But she was also a model and a very successful one. Much of her modeling was nude or semi-nude, graphically depicted in the film, and the actress certainly has a Playboy-worthy beauty.German actress Natalia Avelon plays Uschi Obermaier . While she is the central character her life and travels take her many places and with many famous people. The beginning and the end of the film are the same, she is standing nude on the beach, watching a raft burn, symbolic of her relationships that had died and the men with them. In between is her story.The critic Ebert has a very good and accurate review. Interesting film, but I lived through the 1960s and 1970s, I remember those days, and watching this one didn't do much for me.

Karl Self Considering that this movie features a stunningly beautiful woman running around starkers on screen for about 1/3 of the movie, it's surprisingly boring.The movie is about the most beautiful face of the 1960ies student revolts in Germany -- Uschi Obermaier. Unfortunately, she was little more than a beautiful face (and a very fit body), so possibly the movie's first mistake was picking her as a subject. The next mistake was to chose Natalia Avelon as lead actress -- she may be a great photo model, but she's not much of an actress, and her attempts to mimic Obermaier's charmingly proletarian Bavarian dialect are disastrous, she makes it sound as if Obermaier had some sort of speech impediment.The makers of this movie apparently had enough money for great cinematography, exotic locations and some great music (to viz, "Kick Out The Jams" by the MC5), but they ought to have invested some of it for hiring someone who can write dialogues, which are risibly bad. The same goes for the "political" scenes -- the Kommune 1 comes off as a bunch of stoner caricatures. If none of the makers grasped what the political and cultural upheavals of the late 1960ies were about, why did they make a movie about that era? Overall the movie never allowed me to understand what Obermaier saw in Langhans or Bockhorn (or what Keith Richards or Mick Jagger saw in Mrs Obermaier, for that matter), or what infatuated them about her.To give you an example of the hammy script: near the beginning of the plot, her mother discovers some nude pictures of her young daughter. Uschi consequently packs her suitcase, and in the next scene we see her and a girlfriend hitchhiking to Berlin -- for some reason, not along the only (and mandatory) highway that leads from Munich to the divided city, but on some backroad. None of the squares gives them a lift (presumably because pretty young girls were discriminated against in that day and age), until the archetypal VW hippie bus arrives on the scene. They climb aboard, someone hands them a comic-sized reefer, and announces that they're going to pay the Kommune I a visit. They arrive just as the most famous photograph of the KI is being taken, with the communards lined up naked against the wall. Rainer Langhans, still naked, strolls over to the new arrivals, and Uschi is of course instantly infatuated. And so on.Basically, a (non-porn) movie about some shallow groupie shacking up with some celebrities is difficult to make captivating, and this movie gives it an especially half-arsed shot. I just found it painfully boring to watch.

Andreas Jacke It is stupid to talk about this film seriously. It is a total stupid picture about history. Not more than a comic-strip. It has nothing to do with reality. If we Germans make film about erotic it is always total stupid. Thats a great problem. It is not possible to make a seriously film about sex and drugs and rock- roll - because everybody here this it is only a game and not a real way to go with intelligence.The first scene in this film- father - mother and naked daughter shows us all. Only artificial - stupid without any felling or telling about a true story. All characters are only like in the Muppet's show - but this film should be no parody!! If should be slapstick it would be better- Only the journey to India and the naked are girl are good--- I've been waiting for the German teen girls who are sleep with David bowie in his Berlin time. Would they be shown so stupid too?