303 (2018)

Two university students, Jule and Jan, leave Berlin together in an old camper on a road trip south, but for different reasons.

Director:

Hans Weingartner

Writers:

Hans Weingartner (screenplay), Silke Eggert (screenplay)

Stars:

Mala Emde, Anton Spieker, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey

3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Mala Emde	...	Jule
Anton Spieker	...	Jan
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey	...	Typ
Thomas Schmuckert	...	Jules Prüfer
Jörg Bundschuh	...	Jans Professor
Steven Lange	...	Alex
Martin Neuhaus	...	Trucker Manni
Hannah Schröder	...	Mother
Sophia Tschanett	...	Hannah (as Sophie Tschannett)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Valeria Dymova	...	Gas station girl

Storyline

Jule, a young woman, decides to make a trip with her old Mercedes Hymer 303 motor-home from Berlin to Portugal to tell her boyfriend in person that she's pregnant. She is accompanied by the young hitchhiker Jan, and on this leisurely trip, they have a lot of time to watch together beautiful sunsets and beaches and to talk about - among others - relationships, pheromones, capitalism and Cro-Magnons - meanwhile slowly falling for each other.

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Plot Keywords:

road trip | europe | student | german | germany | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Filmed in part, in the Picos de Europa, Spain.

User Reviews

The soundtrack of this summer

It's July. But the movie of the year is already fixed. And it has a simple name:

303.

This film by Hans Weingartner is everything without exaggeration: It's the soundtrack of this summer and all the summers we've experienced. It is the pulse beat of (at least) two generations. It is the life-philosophical debate that shoots directly into the veins and - of course - goes to the heart.

Roadmovie - that's what people in love with categories probably call what was premiered in Leipzig today. Or love story. But just because two 24-year-olds approach each other on a journey from Berlin to Portugal via Cologne, Belgium, France in a motorhome infinitely slowly, this is only a fraction of this - respect for undistorted pathos - cinematic masterpiece.

Here two young people act so relaxed and uninhibited (excellently embodied by Mala Emde and Anton Spieker) in front of the backdrop of questions of life so familiar to us (Cooperation or competition? Mono or polygamy? outsmart drugs or the annoying inner commentator in another way? Keep hoping and fighting or resigning? Abort or be parents? Fear or love? ) that it gets warmer and warmer with every minute.

In this film one develops untruthful feelings of being at home, while one is increasingly of the opinion that Jule, the main protagonist, must be the most beautiful fragile woman in the world and that the Europe open to borders and touring is a damn fine thing (...was?)

If you stand at the end of the film in a small Portuguese village in the middle of the night on the lantern-lit lonely street and hope with young Jan for the return of the motorhome with his wife, then you are right in the middle of it and are there yourself. This southern shimmer - on a lonely market place and in the lonely chambers of the heart - you have already felt it for yourself. And not only that. Everything else, too. It is a great cinematic comfort that there are people who perceive the world, which has not become as terribly simple as you do, with a similar view. But it's not all comfort. It is certainty that confidence makes sense.

303.

For fathers over 50 with their high school graduate daughters. For motorhomes. For sea enthusiasts. For students. For Mommy and Daddy.

Oh, nonsense: For everyone. Really for everyone.

Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German Portuguese English French Spanish

Release Date:

19 July 2018 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Camper 303

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$351,216

Company Credits

Production Co:

Kahuuna Films, NEUESUPER, Starhaus Produktionen

Technical Specs

Runtime:

145 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1