Emil and the Detectives

Feb 22, 2001

1h 51m

★ 6.4

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

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.

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