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.
Unfortunately the movie The Beheaded Rooster is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Radu Gabrea | Director |
| Writing | Eginald Schlattner | Novel |
| Writing | Radu Gabrea | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bert Koß | Screenplay |
| Production | Radu Gabrea | Producer |
| Production | László Kántor | Producer |
| Production | Arno Ortmair | Producer |
| Production | Dieter Pochlatko | Producer |
| Sound | Thomas Osterhoff | Music |
| Editing | Melania Oproiu | Editor |
| Art | Florin Gabrea | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Svetlana Mihăilescu | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Clara Tudose | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Walter Kindler | Cinematography |
| Directing | Marijan David Vajda | Director |
