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.
Marijan David Vajda
Radu Gabrea
Casts & Crew
Oliver Stritzel
Florian Brückner
David Zimmerschied
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Marion Mitterhammer
Stefan Murr
Werner Prinz
Ioana Iacob
Axel Moustache
Ági Margitai
Victoria Cociaș
Monica Ghiuță
Ovidiu Schumacher
Matthias Franz Stein
Dorel Vișan
Carl Achleitner
Radu Dinulescu
Irina Deac
Vlad Rădescu
Boris Gaza
Radu Gabrea
Mihai Iliescu
Also Directed by Marijan David Vajda
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Also Directed by Radu Gabrea
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