![]() It is the German version of what happened in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the same period. For Uschi's generation, the late Sixties and early Seventies were a time to develop a lifestyle they felt comfortable with. Add to that the new availability of anti-conceptive, greatly helping in experimenting with new lifestyles. Youngsters like Uschi Obermaier felt a strong urge to liberate themselves from their parents' strong & strict moral rules. As a result, a wide generation-gap opened up. ![]() They worried about a new danger their parents mostly ignored: environment pollution. 10 reviews In these linked stories, the constants are the placesfrom Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan’s, a store that sells misfit clothes.Uschi and her generation, born shorty after the war, did not carry this emotional burden. Having lived through the thirties' economic depression and world war 2, Uschi's parents were strongly molded by these tragic times. What remains untold in film and autobiography, is the history of the vibrating Sixties-youth culture. I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in. (2) - I pushed my soul in a deep, dark hole and then I followed it in. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Both real Uschi and her film-copy are about a girl who imaged out the moods of her young days very well - just that. I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high. I've also read Uschi Obermaier's autobiography 'High Times', and conclude that actress Natalia Avelon plays her character well - all set up with true German thoroughness. The DVD also includes a few nice shots of young Uschi in her Sixties & Seventies-days. If I may believe the 'making of'-chapter of my German DVD: the real Uschi has been involved in the process, improving authenticity. This time there's a big difference, though: Uschi survived her wild young days and is still doing well. After recent films about Sixties-pop-icons like Jim Morrisson, Brian Jones and Edie Sedgwick, now Uschi Obermaier is on.
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