Uschi Obermaier (played by Natalia Avelon)
is first seen sobbing over a
pyre, naked on a Mexican beach in 1983 before her biopic flashes back to
her running away from her conservative parents’ home in Munich 15 years
earlier. She’ll soon be naked in Berlin, London, India, Pakistan, on the
road, on magazine covers, in limousines, and
deserts, leaving in her wake anarchists, rock stars, movie producers,
and
paparazzi. Obermaier’s
exuberant freedom with her body first got her plucked out of a local
teen dance club onto a magazine cover. That provided her entrée into
West Berlin’s Kommune 1 and into the busy bed of its charismatic
spokesman Rainer Langhans (shaggy-haired Matthias Schweighöfer, one of
the few male actors in the film to join Avelon in full-frontal
exposure). While she’s much more interested in following his detailed
instructions on how to give better head than his political
indoctrination, she flamboyantly joins in the street protests and
arrests. Even the group’s pompous intellectuals discover a singular truth when all the media coverage focuses on
her—“Sex sells!”
