The Beheaded Rooster
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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Bert Koß, Radu Gabrea
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Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Film-Line Productions GmbH, Total TV, Új Budapest Filmstudió, Epo-Film
Cast
Radu Gabrea, Marijan David Vajda
Director
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
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