The Beheaded Rooster

The Beheaded Rooster

2007 · 100 min · ★ 4.8 · Drama

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.

Directed by Radu Gabrea · Written by Radu Gabrea

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Oliver Stritzel Eugen Goldschmidt
Florian Brückner Engelbert Goldschmidt
David Zimmerschied Felix Goldschmidt
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś Gisela Glückselig
Marion Mitterhammer Hermine
Stefan Murr Csontos
Werner Prinz Grossvater Goldschmidt
Ioana Iacob Alfa Sigrid Binder
Axel Moustache Hans Adolf Bediner
Ági Margitai Grandmother Goldschmidt
Victoria Cociaș Mrs. Goldschmidt
Monica Ghiuță Countess Filality

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