The Beheaded Rooster

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 4, 2007

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German, Romanian

Countries

Romania, Germany, Austria

Production

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

Cast

Radu Gabrea,Radu Dinulescu,Matthias Franz Stein,Carl Achleitner,Marion Mitterhammer,Florian Brückner,Ioana Iacob,Dorel Vișan,Monica Ghiuță,Vlad Rădescuand 12 more

Director

Marijan David Vajda,Radu Gabrea

Writer

Radu Gabrea,Eginald Schlattner,Bert Koß

Producer

Dieter Pochlatko,László Kántor,Radu Gabrea,Arno Ortmair

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

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