“Life writes its own story.” Strand Releasing has debuted their own official US trailer for the German film titled Rhinegold (originally written as Rheingold in German for their release), from the Turkish-German director Fatih Akin. This already opened in Germany back in 2022 – we posted the trailer back then as well. It didn’t have much of an impact, and I doubt anyone in the US will be watching this movie either. Fatih Akin’s Rhinegold captures the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi – best known by his stage name “X A T A R” or Xatar. Born to Kurdish parents in Iran, he was imprisoned in Iraq for being Kurdish. From the hell of that Iraqi prison, Giwar Hajabi came to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and fought through even more challenges to make a name for himself in music. Emilio Sakraya stars as Giwar, along with Mona Pirzad, Kardo Razzazi, Ilyes Raoul, Sogol Faghani, Hüseyin Top, Arman Kashani, plus Ensar “Eno” Albayrak als SSIO. Alas this still looks as uninteresting as any film could – stale filmmaking with nothing captivating about the story either. Meh. // Continue Reading ›
