The Beheaded Rooster
2007A 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.
Acted in
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