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Sun and Concrete (Sonne und Beton, 2023) is a German crime drama from David Wnendt, available to watch online on iFILM. Berlin's Gropiusstadt estate, the record-hot summer of 2003: broken glass in the courtyards, dealers in the stairwells, concrete towers to the horizon.
Lukas, Gino and Julius are fifteen, too broke for even the public pool, with nothing but stress waiting at home. A trip to score weed in the park leaves Lukas caught between two rival crews and owing 500 euros in "protection." The new kid, Sanchez, floats a way out: lift the school's new computers from the storeroom and sell them off. The plan looks foolproof — which is usually how these things go wrong.
Wnendt adapts Felix Lobrecht's autobiographical bestseller and shoots the street with no romance and no lecturing — exactly how teenage Neukölln sounds, rap and boredom and fear all tangled together. It became one of Germany's biggest box-office hits of its year. Hard-edged coming-of-age for anyone who likes their street dramas honest. Stream Sun and Concrete (2023) online on iFILM.
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