THE BEHEADED ROOSTER
by Radu Gabrea
synopsis
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.
Adaptation of Eginald Schlattner's "Der geköpfte Hahn".
international title: | The Beheaded Rooster |
original title: | Der geköpfte Hahn |
country: | Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania |
sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Radu Gabrea |
release date: | AT 24/08/2007 |
screenplay: | Radu Gabrea, Bert Koß, Razvan Radulescu, Wolfgang J. Ruf |
cast: | David Zimmerschied, Alicja Bachleda, Iona Teodora Iacob, Axel Moustache, Wolfgang Hübsch, Ági Margittay, Oliver Stritzel, Victoria Cocias, Florian Brückner |
film editing: | Melania Oproiu |
art director: | Florin Gabrea |
music: | Thomas Osterhoff |
producer: | Radu Gabrea, László Kántor, Arno Ortmair, Dieter Pochlatko, Rose-Marie Couture, Gerd Reinsberg, Claudia Simionescu |
production: | EPO Film, Film-Line Productions, Új Budapest Filmstudió, Total TV (RO) |
backing: | FFF Bayern, Eurimages, Romanian Film Funding (CNC), ÖFI, ORF Film-Fernsehabkommen, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation, Hungarian Tax Refund |
distributor: | Stardust Filmverleih Gmbh, Filmladen (AT) |