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RHEINGOLD

• Director: Fatih Akın
• GERMANY, ITALY, THE NETHERLANDS / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 138’ / German, Arabic, Kurdish, French, Dutch, Turkish; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Fatih Akın
• Director of Photography: Rainer Klausmann
• Editing: Andrew Bird
• Music: Ralf Kemper
• Cast: Emilio Sakraya, Mona Pirzad, Julia Goldberg, Sogol Faghani, Karim Güneş, Doğa Gürer, Samir Jebrelli, Hussein Eliraqui, Arman Kashani, Minú Köchermann
• Producer: Fatih Akın, Nurhan Şekerci-Porst, Herman Weigel
• Production Co.: Bombero International, Warner Bros. Entertainment Germany, Palosanto Films, Lemming Film, Corazón International, RAI Cinema
• World Sales: The Match Factory
• Turkish Rights: Bir Film

‘The most challenging film I made,’ says Fatih Akın about his latest feature Rheingold, a biopic about celebrated Kurdish-German gangsta rapper Giwar Hajabi–a.k.a. Xatar. German actor and musician Emilio Sakraya plays Xatar, who immigrated from Iraq to Germany with his family in the late 1980s. Rheingold is based on Xatar’s autobiographical novel Alles oder Nix (All or Nothing). Xatar’s way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring: From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar’s rise from petty criminal to major drug dealer is swift. Until one shipment goes missing. In order to clear his debts with the cartel, he plans a legendary gold heist. But just as everything goes wrong, another door opens for Giwar thanks to his passion for music...

This film is screened with the generous support of German Films.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.