The Beheaded Rooster (2007)
A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.
- Released
- 2007-06-04
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Radu Gabrea, Bert Koß, Radu Gabrea, Marijan David Vajda
- TMDB rating
- 4.8/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Oliver Stritzel as Eugen Goldschmidt
- Florian Brückner as Engelbert Goldschmidt
- David Zimmerschied as Felix Goldschmidt
- Alicja Bachleda-Curuś as Gisela Glückselig
- Marion Mitterhammer as Hermine
- Stefan Murr as Csontos
- Werner Prinz as Grossvater Goldschmidt
- Ioana Iacob as Alfa Sigrid Binder
- Axel Moustache as Hans Adolf Bediner
- Ági Margitai as Grandmother Goldschmidt
- Victoria Cociaș as Mrs. Goldschmidt
- Monica Ghiuță as Countess Filality