RHINEGOLD

From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar Hajabi emigrated to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and has to start right at the bottom. There are opportunities, but far more obstacles. Giwar’s rise from petty criminal to major 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…

FATIH AKIN

Fatih Akin (Hamburg, 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. He directed his first short feature, Sensin - You're the One! (1995), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. His second short film Weed (1996) received several national and international festival prizes. His first full length feature film, Short Sharp Shock (1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award. His other films include: Solino (2002), Head-On (2004, Berlinale, Golden Bear), The Edge of Heaven (2007, Cannes, Best Screenplay), and the film In the Fade (2017), the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

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The film is on more solid ground and a committed Akin steers it to the finish line as a solidly entertaining stranger-than-fiction biopic.

Allan Hunter, Screendaily