Emil and the Detectives

Feb 22, 2001

1h 51m

★ 6.1

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Family

Production Companies

ZDF

Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH

Lunaris Film

Odeon Film AG

Emil and the Detectives Trailers

Cast

Emil Tischbein

Tobias Retzlaff

Pony Hütchen

Anja Sommavilla

Max Grundeis

Jürgen Vogel

Pastorin Hummel

Maria Schrader

Knut Tischbein

Kai Wiesinger

Gypsi

Max Befort

Kebab

Maurice Kumar

Flügel

Sergej Moya

Gustav Hummel

David Klock

Dienstag

Tobias Unkauf

Hassouna

Thando Walbaum

Lehrer Hummel

Rudolf Kowalski

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