Synopsis
Rhinegold (Rheingold, 2022) is Fatih Akin's crime biopic, available to watch online on iFILM. It follows Giwar Hajabi, a Kurdish boy whose family fled an Iraqi prison for Germany — and who grows into Xatar, the country's most notorious rapper.
The streets raised Giwar. Petty scams give way to dealing, debt collection and a fast climb through a drug cartel, until one shipment vanishes and the cartel wants its money back. His answer is a heist most people wouldn't dare: a transport truck holding 1.7 million euros in gold. It goes wrong. The gold disappears, and Giwar lands behind bars. Emilio Sakraya plays him raw, never asking you to admire him.
Drawn from the real Xatar's autobiography, the film lets a prison cell become the unlikely doorway to a music career. Akin, the director of Head-On, keeps it somewhere between documentary grit and full-blooded drama. Worth it if you like rise-and-fall crime stories with no gangster gloss. Stream Rhinegold (2022) online on iFILM.
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