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Verzauberte Emma oder Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge... !

  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Verzauberte Emma oder Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge... ! (2002)
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A Freaky Friday Fresh out of Germany!_11 year-old Emma doesn't have it easy. Her mother expects her to outperform everyone and her swim coach wants to make her an Olympic swimmer.A Freaky Friday Fresh out of Germany!_11 year-old Emma doesn't have it easy. Her mother expects her to outperform everyone and her swim coach wants to make her an Olympic swimmer.A Freaky Friday Fresh out of Germany!_11 year-old Emma doesn't have it easy. Her mother expects her to outperform everyone and her swim coach wants to make her an Olympic swimmer.

  • Director
    • Oliver Dommenget
  • Writers
    • Oliver Dommenget
    • Ronald Kruschak
    • Astrid Ströher
  • Stars
    • Sarah Hannemann
    • Nick Seidensticker
    • Philipp Blank
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    220
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Oliver Dommenget
    • Writers
      • Oliver Dommenget
      • Ronald Kruschak
      • Astrid Ströher
    • Stars
      • Sarah Hannemann
      • Nick Seidensticker
      • Philipp Blank
    • 4User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Sarah Hannemann
    • Emma…
    Nick Seidensticker
    • Mickey…
    Philipp Blank
    • Vierauge
    Pinkas Braun
    Pinkas Braun
    • Albert Tartov
    Nina Petri
    Nina Petri
    • Emmas Mutter Paula Uhland
    Stephan Benson
    • Schwimmlehrer Hendrik Hopp
    Tanja Schumann
    • Lehrerin Frau Kahl
    Dominique Horwitz
    Dominique Horwitz
    • Mickeys Vater Olaf
    Marie-Lou Sellem
    • Mickeys Mutter Ulrike
    • (as Marie Lou Sellem)
    Antonie Boegner
    • Helena
    Nadine Fano
    • Michelle
    Tim Troeger
    Tim Troeger
    • Emmas Bruder Lenni
    Christoph Metke
    • Sprecher Frau Fauli
    • (voice)
    David Kross
    David Kross
    • Paddy
    • (as David Kroß)
    Franz Paul Stiller
    • Attila
    Felix Benjamin Maue
    • Ritter Marek
    • (as Felix Maue)
    Lisa-Sophie Kempke
    • Mädchen aus Emmas Haus
    Anna Lena Hackstedt
    • Mädchen aus Emmas Haus
    • Director
      • Oliver Dommenget
    • Writers
      • Oliver Dommenget
      • Ronald Kruschak
      • Astrid Ströher
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      Ich bin du und Du bist ich
      • Anne

      Composed by Jens Langbein and Robert Schulte-Hemming (as Robert Schulte Hemming)

      Text by Anne Schröder

      Bass: Stefan Endrigkeit

      Drums: Lars Plogschties

      Guitar: Joachim Schlüter

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    7/10
    Yet another entertaining body swap film
    This film is obviously aimed at a very young age group of, I would estimate, nine to twelve year olds. Nevertheless, it contains enough charm to fascinate, though not enthral, older viewers too. By no means for the first time in the history of cinema, two people swap their bodies by magic. As usual, they are very different personalities, and in this case they have the advantage of being in their formative years. Emma, who is good at school and such a good swimmer that she is being considered for training for the Olympic Games, and Mickey, both played by Sarah Hannemann and Nick Seidensticker, are helped in their plight by their classmate Four Eyes, played by Philipp Blank, who has a very different, more practical character from the leading pair. Before he loses the book of magic which enabled Emma and Mickey to swap bodies, Four Eyes deciphers the fact that they only have fifty-four hours to reverse the magic. Then the magician disappears, making the race against time even more difficult.

    The three children playing the leading roles are sufficiently good to give credibility to the three characters, and how they cope with the situations they land up in.

    The film is set in Hamburg, and does not fail to show a backdrop of various typical buildings in fairly ordinary parts of the city, the highlight of which is a short visit to Hamburg Dungeon.

    Albert Tartov, the magician played by Pinkas Braun, displays even more than the magicians in other films that his magic cannot do everything imaginable. For instance, instead of the usual animals, he has a tortoise, which, of course, does not have quite the mobility of many other creatures.

    The other characters do not get much time to develop within the plot, and tend too much towards displaying stereotypes.

    Conforming to the main purpose of the body swap genre, Emma and Mickey are helped by the insights their consciousness in someone else's body presents them with, as the plot unfolds. The ending is not entirely predictable, although the direction of the film is relatively obvious.
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    • Aug 6, 2006

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    • Release date
      • October 17, 2002 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Help! I'm a Boy
    • Filming locations
      • Hamburg, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion
      • Hamburger Filmwerkstätten e.V.
      • Studio Hamburg Produktion
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $86,671
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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