Sun and Concrete

Sun and Concrete (2023)

Sonne und Beton

The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan.

Date of release
2023-03-02
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (143)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
David Wnendt

Casting

Interesting facts

Sun and Concrete is a 2023 German coming-of-age and crime film co-written and directed by David Wnendt. This is the film adaptation of the autobiographically inspired bestseller of the same name by Felix Lobrecht, stars Levy Rico Arcos, Rafael Luis Klein-Heßling, Vincent Wiemer and Aaron Maldonado-Morales. It is about four classmates, who break into their school in Berlin-Gropiusstadt in the hope of solving their money problems. It is selected at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlinale Special Gala, where it will have its world premiere on 18 February 2023. It is scheduled for release in cinemas on 2 March 2023.

Production

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Felix Lobrecht, he also wrote the screenplay together with director David Wnendt. The audition for roles was conducted from over 5,000 young people from all over Germany. Levy Rico Arcos, Vincent Wiemer, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling and Aaron Maldonado-Morales made it to the final cast along with Jörg Hartmann, Franziska Wulf and musicians and hip-hop stars like Luvre47, Lucio101, Juju, Olexesh…

Filming began on 25 June 2021 and was wrapped up on 11 September 2021 after 59 days of shooting in Berlin-Gropiusstadt.

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