The Beheaded Rooster (Der geköpfte Hahn) 16 years old

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.

Credits

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś as Gisela Glückselig

Florian Brückner as Engelbert Goldschmidt

Oliver Stritzel as Eugen Goldschmidt

Marion Mitterhammer as Hermine

Werner Prinz as Grossvater Goldschmidt

Stefan Murr as Csontos

The Beheaded Rooster Cast

Name	Character
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś She was 24, now 41 years old	as Gisela Glückselig
Florian Brückner He was 23, now 40 years old	as Engelbert Goldschmidt
Oliver Stritzel He was 50, now 67 years old	as Eugen Goldschmidt
Marion Mitterhammer She was 41, now 58 years old	as Hermine
Werner Prinz He was 66, now 83 years old	as Grossvater Goldschmidt
Stefan Murr He was 31, now 48 years old	as Csontos

The Beheaded Rooster Crew

Name	Department
Radu Gabrea as Director. He was 69 (79) years old when He died	Directing

The Beheaded Rooster (16 years)

Release day: Monday, June 04, 2007
Runtime: 100 minutes