The Beheaded Rooster

Name: Der geköpfte Hahn
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-06-04
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: David Zimmerschied, Alicja Bachleda, Ioana Iacob

Original title: Der geköpfte Hahn

2007
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

314

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Drama

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 tradi... Read allA 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 tak... Read allA 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 s... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

314

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Awards
- 2 wins & 12 nominations

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old picture

pathetic but authentic. strange but necessary. confession and kind of broken fairy-story. demonstration of use for each basic ingredient. cruel, nice and bitter. adaptation of a novel. testimony about a community life. and about its fall in Transylvania - land of many ethnics.sure, maybe it is not great. almost boring and didacticist, it has a small grain of pure beauty. the image of rooster, the performance of Dorel Vișan as Mailat, the fresh air of youth, the pieces from pure joy , the portrait of grandfathers Goldschmit. its sins - pedagogic message. so, it is not a letter but a lesson. a rock with prints of a fight without end. the effect is not remarkable. the story is forced and, for few moments, fake. but, it is a good exercise to remember the image of a lost period.