After this film was reviled by the critics often, I consider a vindication appropriate. Sure, there are several lengths, especially in the second part, not all actors are so convincing as the actor Rainer Langhans, and the government can at times even arguing. Nevertheless, it is my opinion to a much better reconstruction of the era than, say, a so-much-praised film like Velvet Goldmine. can
I showed the film to my Italian German students who were subsequently almost shocked that on such a shallow topic rather surprising coming, but perhaps also as a reference be understood that this is just but one of the most interesting These stories, which had to tell the German cinema in recent decades, notably because of their sociological relevance.
What happens there actually in the movie and in the life of Uschi Obermaier? A beautiful model from the deep melancholy Bavarian province gets chance, but not quite unexpectedly, the most radical social experiment that was daring since the time of the Reformation in Germany. From the perspective of a society like the Italian, who has taken a bit less of the positive lessons of an experiment in itself as the German (and maybe some more of the negative), the film is immediately clear that the challenge of the Communards still is able to shake some entrenched civil security. The slogans of Kunzelmann and the drivel of Langhans throw an explosive number of questions: How can we change society? How can we hope to change society if we do not change yourself first? Why do some of us have a family and others want to just avoid it? How can we hope to change society if we do not act publicly and to retreat instead always behind our four walls? How can we use the media for our socio-political goals and how far we can go there? Above all, do we want to change this society at all?
In the case of Uschi Obermaier can probably answer the last question with an unequivocal no. Kunzelmann this had probably figured it because Uschi never made a secret of the fact that in the whole Revolutionsgeschwafel solely interested in the pleasure principle. Letters? Unattractive! Bond to another person or object: No way! Some sort of responsibility: None!
During the Communards were soon overtaken by the bourgeois everyday problems (who cleans the toilet?), The upper Maier for the freedom and pleasure principle realized in the highest degree and maximized. Their behavior is very modern: it is exploiting her shapely body in order to increase their name recognition, and uses these two resources is an embarrassment to fund their own hedonistic objectives. Totally normal, right? Millions of young people dream of doing today or anything else, if they set their beautifully retouched photos on Facebook and nothing else are off, as current by some stupid TV Talk becoming famous, to then market the ephemeral glory of third-rate advertising deals. Such forms of self-alienation in Berlusconi's Italy are not equal more widespread than in Germany, where they probably just tear. The real surprise in the film is, therefore, the discovery that such a conformist and could be considered in the highest degree unfree behavior only a few decades, even as a conformist, liberating, even revolutionary.
How much has not changed since the High Times of Uschi Obermaier? But many do not seem the best! In the 60s it was mainly the Music, which promoted social change, which greatly slowed at least since the advent of MTV. Today, the modern pop music is not just any social or political relevance, but also has all the charm is lost. The film also seems to the Asia of the 70's an entirely peaceful continent that could be revealed by crossing safe as the Hamburg neighborhood, if you only went out of the way the drugs squad. Perhaps this was still the last area of the era of decolonization, in any case, these carefree times since the Iranian revolution in 1979, definitely over, as well as in the film passionately described carefree era of free love, a little later with the onset of immune deficiency AIDS came to an end.
This film shows us, therefore, the social development during the last four decades, such as by time, the treated well by the resulting contrasts in excess of the lead time. As a result, we obtain a most vivid indication where we're heading: the social-revolutionary right-conformist aspirations for freedom on the primacy of hedonistic self-fulfillment through to once again adapted, generalized and banal prostitution. 
against this sad present stands Uschi Obermaier from then on but still positive, again as an almost believable icon of the feminist movement. Class you will probably not deny, and was a precursor they certainly, even if only for such successful German export items such as Claudia Schiffer and Heidi Klum.
is the end of the film Uschi but still fallen into the trap binding. After the death of her companions, she speaks thus modified the sentence about himself: "I was a selfish monster." A monster that was obviously the model for more than a generation. What the last open question of the film is raised: Does the maximum freedom of the individual only in the personal isolation and perhaps inevitably in the maximum freedom for all? against this sad present stands Uschi Obermaier from then on but still positive, again as an almost believable icon of the feminist movement. Class you will probably not deny, and was a precursor they certainly, even if only for such successful German export items such as Claudia Schiffer and Heidi Klum. 