Emil and the Detectives (2001)

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Emil and the Detectives on IMDb 5.9/10 816 votes

Released:
2001-02-22

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.

Director:
Franziska Buch

Runtime:
1h 51min

Genre:
Comedy, Family

  • Cast:
  • Tobias Retzlaff
    as
    Emil Tischbein
  • Anja Sommavilla
    as
    Pony Hütchen
  • Jürgen Vogel
    as
    Max Grundeis
  • Maria Schrader
    as
    Pastorin Hummel
  • Kai Wiesinger
    as
    Knut Tischbein