No, not “Manta Manta 2”: One million visitors turn one of the best German films of 2023 into a mega hit!

German cinema puts a (further) exclamation mark: During “The three ??? – Legacy of the Dragon” leads the local annual cinema charts and “Manta Manta 2” is currently drawing crowds to German cinemas, is now also included in the success story of “sun and concrete“ opened a new chapter: the bestselling film adaptation after the novel by Felix Lobrecht* has now cracked the magical milestone of 1 million visitors! Distributor Constantin Film has now announced this.

The environmental study, based in Gropiusstadt, Berlin, became a real sleeper hit: 190,000 tickets were sold during the opening weekend at the beginning of March, including a respectable second place. Last but not least, the excellent reviews (FILMSTARTS gave it a solid 4 out of 5 stars) and the positive word-of-mouth from moviegoers may have contributed to the interest in Wetland director David Wnendt’s film not fading. only barely decreased, but even increased:

The film even managed to attract 205,000 people to the cinemas in its second weekend, keeping in touch with the Hollywood blockbuster “Creed III” – which, after all, had the strongest theatrical release of the year! The film has held up well over the past few weeks, so now it does too one of only five films to cross the million mark by 2023.

In addition to the aforementioned “The Three???” (1.47 million tickets sold) and “Creed 3” (1.03 million tickets sold), “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (1.21 million tickets sold) and “John Wick 4” (1.18 million tickets sold). tickets).

“Sun and Concrete”: this is how German genre cinema works!

The success of “Sonne und Beton” is particularly gratifying, not only because a (further) blockbuster from Germany naturally gives the local cinema a boost. Above all, the Kiez study is a damn successful movie that deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. Although Til Schweiger’s “Manta Manta – Zwoter Teil” is successful but almost unanimously panned by critics and audiences alike, the ubiquitous enthusiasm shown to “Sonne und Beton” is still felt more than a month after its theatrical release.

So if you haven’t seen the movie yet, we can suggest you do so right now. “Sun and Concrete” can still be seen in cinemas all over Germany – if you prefer to enjoy movies at home, you can also secure the home cinema evaluation, for which there is no start date yet (December 31 only serves as a temporary date):

And if the film has disappeared without a trace (even if we don’t know how that is possible)… That’s what “Sun and Concrete” is about:

Berlin, 2003: In a blistering hot summer, Lukas (Levy Rico Arcos), Gino (Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling) and Julius (Vincent Wiemer) find themselves caught between the fronts of the dealers while buying weed in the park. In the end, one of them is not only beaten up, but they also have to pay 500 euros in protection money – which the four young people, who are always short of money, of course do not have. So without further ado, they decide to steal the new school computers and turn them into money…