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Emil and the Detectives (2001)

Emil and the Detectives (2001)

Comedy Family
Release Date: 2001, February 22
Directors: Franziska Buch
Countries: Germany
Production: ZDF, Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH, Lunaris Film, Odeon Film AG
Cast: Florian Lukas, Oscar Ortega Sánchez, Martin Feifel, Maria Schrader, Jürgen Vogel, Sergej Moya, Max Befort, Rudolf Kowalski, Ludwig Trepte, Rufus Beck, Horst Kotterba, Kai Wiesinger

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.

Keywords:

woman director thief single father stolen money gang unemployment berlin, germany summer vacation piggy bank