Directed by:
David WnendtCinematography:
Jieun YiCast:
Levy Rico Arcos, Rafael Luis Klein-Heßling, Vincent Wiemer, Aaron Maldonado Morales, Jörg Hartmann, Franziska Wulf, Marzia Tedeschi, Husam Chadat (more)Plots(1)
Gropiusstadt is a large housing estate in Berlin’s Neukölln district that is not for the faint-hearted. For residents Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez, a summer that was at first baking hot and tedious soon turns into a nerve-wracking adventure. Filled with social hardship and badass slang, Felix Lobrecht’s much-lauded autobiographical first novel is a monument to the estate and his four protagonists and is told with wit, passion and poetry. David Wnendt, Germany’s go-to director for tricky material, wrote the script together with the author and has transposed it to the screen in a fast-paced and entertaining work that is full of situational comedy. There is plenty of violence, brutality, and “araba-boxing-sonofabitch-I-swear-I’ll-fuck-up-your-face” because here no one can avoid drugs, gang wars and family fissures, and language is in any case the best way to experiment with posing and transgressing. The boys do not even have enough cash for the swimming pool, their mountain of debt grows, a theft goes wrong, and the fact that one of them almost bites the dust in the process is only realised by the others quite late in the day. Just your average life as a teenager in the suburbs – this, too, is Berlin! (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Levy Rico Arcos
Germany
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Rafael Luis Klein-Heßling
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Vincent Wiemer
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Aaron Maldonado Morales
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
![Jörg Hartmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/305/159305547_5250f3.jpg)
Jörg Hartmann
West Germany
Best movies:
Sein letztes Rennen (2013)
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
![Franziska Wulf](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/506/160506503_1f8b63.jpg)
Franziska Wulf
East Germany
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Look Who's Back (2015)
Only God Can Judge Me (2017)
Marzia Tedeschi
Italy
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Kreuzfahrt ins Glück (2007) (series)
![Husam Chadat](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/899/163899039_3ad35c.jpg)
Husam Chadat
Syria
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
![Roland Wolf](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/760/166760527_b18fab.jpg)
Roland Wolf
West Germany
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
The Palace (2021) (series)
Wendezeit (2019) (TV movie)
Jan Geburtig
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Munich – The Edge of War (2021)
![Leon Ullrich](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/771/166771368_8a9a9c.jpg)
Leon Ullrich
West Germany
Best movies:
I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Look Who's Back (2015)
Nicole Johannhanwahr-Balk
West Germany
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Jonathan Wirtz
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Jörg Rühl
West Germany
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Lassie Come Home (2020)
Ali Haydar Kocak
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Arda Görkem
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Johan Grewal
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
David Ruland
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Riad Chemali
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
Wael Alkhatib
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)