The Beheaded Rooster

The Beheaded Rooster

2007•1h 40m•4.8/10

Drama

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4.8/10(5)

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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Production

Film-Line Productions GmbH, Total TV, Új Budapest Filmstudió, Epo-Film

Language

DE

Status

Released

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Cast

Oliver Stritzel

Oliver Stritzel

Eugen Goldschmidt

Florian Brückner

Florian Brückner

Engelbert Goldschmidt

David Zimmerschied

David Zimmerschied

Felix Goldschmidt

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Gisela Glückselig

Marion Mitterhammer

Marion Mitterhammer

Hermine

Stefan Murr

Stefan Murr

Csontos

Werner Prinz

Grossvater Goldschmidt

Ioana Iacob

Ioana Iacob

Alfa Sigrid Binder

Axel Moustache

Axel Moustache

Hans Adolf Bediner

Ági Margitai

Ági Margitai

Grandmother Goldschmidt

Victoria Cociaș

Victoria Cociaș

Mrs. Goldschmidt

Monica Ghiuță

Monica Ghiuță

Countess Filality

Ovidiu Schumacher

Ovidiu Schumacher

Rev. Stamm

Matthias Franz Stein

Matthias Franz Stein

Karlibuzzi

Dorel Vișan

Dorel Vișan

Mailat

Carl Achleitner

Carl Achleitner

Young publisher

Radu Dinulescu

Mr. Gluckselig

Irina Deac

Mrs. Gluckselig

Vlad Rădescu

Vlad Rădescu

Colonel Popescu

Boris Gaza

Roland

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