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Emil And The Detectives

Original Title

Emil und die Detektive

Director

Franziska Buch

Genre

Family

Country of origin

Germany

Language spoken

German

Year of production

2000/2001

Admissions

1,619,971

Box Office

€ 7,148,127

Production

Bavaria Film International
A division of
Bavaria Media GmbH 
Bavariafilmplatz 8
D-82031 Geiselgasteig
phone +49 (89) 6499-3728
fax +49 (89) 6499-3720
www.bavaria-film-international.de

 

Co-production

Lunaris Film

Domestic distribution

Constantin Film (Monaco)
Tel  +49 89 386090

 

Domestic release

22 February 2001

Film website

www.emil-film.de

List of Distributors

Release date

Country

Distributor

Phone

 

e-mail

 

France

Steward

 

 

 

Israel

Ephraim Gilad & Co.

+97236311455

nachshon_films@hotmail.com

 

Croatia

Ljubljanski Kinematografi

+38 61 52 05 526

maja.kavran@lj-kino.si

 

Slovenia

 

Bosnia

 

Spain

Andorra

Aliabit Espana S.L.

 

 

 

Hungaria

Best Hollywood KFT

+36 12 02 133

oliver@best-hollywood.hu

 

Estonia

 

 

 

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

Poland

 

 

 

 

Iceland

 

 

 

 

Slowakei

 

 

 

Synopsis

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck: first Emil's mother decamps for Canada, then his father is fired from work, and then, to add insult to injury, he's so excited about a new job offer that he has a car accident and loses his health and his license. But it gets even worse: to take a break from all those 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 1,500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids lead 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. Franziska Buch based "Emil und die Detektive" on the children's novel of the same name, written in 1928 by Erich Kästner. She manages a wonderful adaptation which sensitively preserves the core of the story, namely a strong sense of family and comradeship, but transports it to the 21st century with the help of excellent actors. Much hip-hop music, stylish clothes, the use of cell phones and laptops creates an atmosphere of Berlin as a truly vibrant and modern metropolis.