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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.

Top Cast

  • Oliver Stritzel

    Oliver Stritzel

    Eugen Goldschmidt

  • Florian Brückner

    Florian Brückner

    Engelbert Goldschmidt

  • David Zimmerschied

    David Zimmerschied

    Felix Goldschmidt

  • Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

    Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

    Gisela Glückselig

  • Marion Mitterhammer

    Marion Mitterhammer

    Hermine

  • Stefan Murr

    Stefan Murr

    Csontos

  • Werner Prinz

    Werner Prinz

    Grossvater Goldschmidt

  • Ioana Iacob

    Ioana Iacob

    Alfa Sigrid Binder

  • Axel Moustache

    Axel Moustache

    Hans Adolf Bediner

Overview

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.

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