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Emil and the Detectives (2001)

★ 6.4/10 111 min Comedy, Family Germany German
Screenplay by: Franziska Buch
Novel: Erich Kästner
Streaming: Not available

Description

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.

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Top Cast

Tobias Retzlaff
Tobias Retzlaff Emil Tischbein
Anja Sommavilla Pony Hütchen
Jürgen Vogel
Jürgen Vogel Max Grundeis
Maria Schrader
Maria Schrader Pastorin Hummel
Kai Wiesinger
Kai Wiesinger Knut Tischbein
Max Befort
Max Befort Gypsi
Maurice Kumar Kebab
Sergej Moya
Sergej Moya Flügel

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