The Beheaded Rooster

The Beheaded Rooster

100 mins | Drama | June 4, 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.

The Beheaded Rooster

100 mins | Drama | June 4, 2007

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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Új Budapest Filmstudió, Epo-Film, Film-Line Productions GmbH, Total TV
Original title Der geköpfte Hahn
Directors Radu Gabrea, Marijan David Vajda
Writers Eginald Schlattner, Bert Koß, Radu Gabrea

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

Margitai Ági

as Grandmother Goldschmidt

Victoria Cociaș

as Mrs. Goldschmidt

Monica Ghiuță

as Countess Filality

Ovidiu Schumacher

as Rev. Stamm

Matthias Franz Stein

as Karlibuzzi

Dorel Vișan

as Mailat

Carl Achleitner

as Young publisher

Radu Dinulescu

as Mr. Gluckselig

Irina Deac

as Mrs. Gluckselig

Vlad Rădescu

as Colonel Popescu

Boris Gaza

as Roland

Radu Gabrea

as Dr. Schul

Mihai Iliescu

as Man in leather coat