Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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.

veve_veve I'm disappointed about the low rating that this movie has. It's one of my favorites and I've watched it several times. I've read other reviews to see why it has such a low rating, and I notice that people expect from it something that it's not. They expect it to be about the "Kommune", they expect it to be about an extraordinary girl, and they expect expensive set designs.This movie is not about all that. The way I see it, Das Wilde Leben is about a journey, it's about a girl who is free and is not afraid to break boundaries, it's about a girl who uses her beauty to have the adventure of her life. She falls in love with powerful men, she lives wildly, she sees the world. And, above all, this movie is about a powerful woman. Is the movie true to the historical facts? Is it true to Uschi's life? That's not what's important. It's a movie, not a documentary. Beyond the cheap sets and the historical inaccuracies (if there are any) lays a beautiful and inspiring story.

asteinku The story of Uschi Obermaier and her rise to fame in the 1960s. The film accurately depicts her life and in the process has many dope party scenes as well. The film is to premier in the US August 22 and I am excited to see how the English version will compare to the original German. Obermaier's accent is not "exaggerated" as the actress's native language is indeed German.The unique viewpoint Uschi experienced during the social revolution makes for a very interesting film. Themes of growing up, life, learning to love, and experiencing loss all are major players. All in all, if you are looking for a film true to life, a film that doesn't gloss over the hardships and dull down the excitement of freedom, this is a movie for you.