Beheaded Rooster, The Austria / Germany / Hungary / Romania
2007, 101min.
Prod.: Radu Gabrea, László Kántor, Arno Ortmair, Dieter Pochlatko, Rose-Marie Couture, Gerd Reinsberg, Claudia Simionescu, Script: Radu Gabrea, Bert Koß, Razvan Radulescu, Wolfgang J. Ruf, Dir.: Radu Gabrea., Dir. of Phot.: Walter Kindler, Compos.: Thomas Osterhoff, Prod. Design: Florin Gabrea, Sound: Christian Bischoff, Edit.: Melania Oproiu
Cast: David Zimmerschied, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Iona Teodora Iacob, Axel Moustache, Wolfgang Hübsch, Ági Margittay, Oliver Stritzel, Victoria Cocias, Florian Brückner
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. The film is an adaptation of Eginald Schlattner’s Der geköpfte Hahn.
Production Companies
EPO-Film-Produktionsges.m.b.H.
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1120 Vienna
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Film-Line Productions
Új Budapest Filmstudió
Total TV (RO)
| Gabrea, Radu Radu Gabrea (born 1937, Bucharest, Romania)
Gabrea graduated from the Theater and Cinema Institute after Ion Caragiale in 1968. He took part in the Cannes FF with his first two films Too Small for Such a Great War and Beyond the Sands. After shooting Beyond the Sands he left Romania. In 1974-1997 Gabrea worked in Germany. In 1986 he graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium with his final thesis Werner Herzog and the Mystic of Rhine (Werner Herzog et La Mystique Rhénane, Histoire et Theorie du Cinéma) published in French in Lausanne by the L’Age d’Homme publishers in the same year. In 1998 Gabrea returned to Bucharest as the head of National Cinema Department, the Ministry of Culture of Romania. He is a producer, director and screenwriter.
Filmography
Too Small for Such a Great War (Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare, 1969), Bucharest Memories (Amintiri bucurestene, 1970), Beyond the Sands (Dincolo de nisipuri, 1973), Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob! (1982), A Man Called Eva (Ein Mann wie EVA, 1984), The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989), Rosenemil (1993), Im Zeichen der Liebe (1994), Struma (2001), Noro (2002), The Beheaded Rooster (Der Geköpfte Hahn, 2007), Calatoria lui Gruber (2008)
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