Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
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Tobias Retzlaff | ... | Emil Tischbein |
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Anja Sommavilla | ... | Pony Hütchen |
| Jürgen Vogel | ... | Max Grundeis | |
| Maria Schrader | ... | Pastorin Hummel | |
| Max Befort | ... | Gypsi (as Maximilian Befort) | |
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Tim Hansen | ... | Krumbiegel |
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Maurice Kumar | ... | Kebab |
| Sergej Moya | ... | Flügel | |
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Anita Schulz | ... | Elfe |
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Annika Schulz | ... | Fee |
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Tobias Unkauf | ... | Dienstag |
| Kai Wiesinger | ... | Knut Tischbein | |
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David Klock | ... | Gustav Hummel |
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Thando Walbaum | ... | Hassouna |
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Rudolf Kowalski | ... | Lehrer Hummel |
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Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
22 February 2001 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Emil y los detectives See more »Filming Locations:
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This engaging film takes a German children's classic of the 1920s and updates it to today's multicultural Berlin. The main characters appear to be between 8 and 12 years old, old enough to understand a lot about the world..but not everything, which adds some humor to the plot about a gang of children trying to track down a thief who has stolen money from the title character, young Emil. Some of the children are immigrants, some are homeless, and one is the son of a woman pastor. They travel through the streets of Berlin on skateboards, they rap about their adventures, and they are definitely not dutiful or respectful.
I saw this movie at a film festival, and I think it would make a good family movie. Unfortunately, young Americans don't have much patience with subtitles, and it has never been released in the U.S., nor, apparently, is it on DVD.