Emil and the Detectives (2001 film)

  • Tobias Retzlaff: Emil Tischbein
  • Anja Sommavilla: Ponyhütchen
  • Jürgen Vogel: Max Grundeis
  • Maria Schrader: Pastor Hummel
  • Kai Wiesinger: Knut Tischbein
  • Tim Hansen: Krumbiegel
  • Maurice Kumar: Kebab
  • Sergej Moya: Wing
  • Anita Schulz: Elves
  • Annika Schulz: Fairy
  • Tobias Unkauf: Tuesday
  • Maximilian Befort: Gypsie
  • David Klock: Gustav Hummel
  • Thando Walbaum: Hassouna
  • Rudolf Kowalski: Teacher Hummel
  • Martin Feifel: Paschke
  • Oscar Ortega Sánchez: Boban
  • Grushenka Stevens: Mother Pony
  • Horst Kotterba: Father Pony
  • Rufus Beck: Hotel Concierge
  • Florian Lukas
  • Ludwig Trepte

Emil and the Detectives is a German film directed by Franziska Buch from the year 2001. He is loosely based on the novel by Erich Kästner.

Action

Emil lives with his single father in a small town on the Baltic coast with the fictitious name Streiglitz. Emil's mother left the family. Except for occasional letters from Canada, in which the mother sends money, Emil has no contact with her.

Emil's father is unemployed. But he gets the chance of a new job, when a company from West Germany settles in the small eastern German town. However, he built shortly after setting an accident and loses his driver's license. Because he was considered representative needs this, he is threatened again the loss of a job.

Since the father is in the hospital after the accident, Emil should go during the holidays to Berlin for Pastor Hummel, a sister of his class teacher. Emil has been informed by a friend that you can get in Berlin everything, including fake driving licenses. So he decides to secretly to get his father such in Berlin, and empties for the "future checkout " with the money collected from the letters his mother. On the train ride to Berlin, he meets Max Grundeis ( Jürgen Vogel). Its special identification marks bleached hair, as a vampire teeth pointed canine teeth in the mouth, black clothes, a red briefcase and red cowboy boots. Grundeis see that Emil has 1,500 DM with him. He arranges a meeting via mobile phone with a gang that sold at this price fake ID cards and driver's licenses, and recorded the meeting on a note for Emil. On the "successful business " is to be initiated. But the drink are knockout drops mixed so that Grundeis Emil can steal the money.

Only at the Berlin Zoo station wakes Emil and looks just yet, as Max Grundeis disappears on the platform. He immediately takes up the chase. This turns out in a strange city, of course, be very difficult. Finally, he observed him as he stop off in the upper tree -Eck to eat, from the backyard through a ventilation pipe restaurant kitchen. Luckily he meets here on the same defense Ponyhütchen. After a short explanation of what happened, they immediately agreed to help Emil. Since she is the leader of a really large, flexible gang of children, helpers are fast enough drummed up to shade the thief.

The single and notoriously standing under time pressure Pastor Hummel comes with her son Gustav too late to pick up their guest at Bahnhof Zoo. Since they did not find him, they decide, first of all to go home, because Emil yes, the address and maybe my way is to them. Gustav, a highly talented and quite precocious boy, is not enthusiastic about the upcoming visit. He sees himself more as victims of his mother's humanitarian activities. Since the two Emil have never seen, meanwhile, decides the gang of children that simply outputs Gypsie from the gang as Emil. Playing on the PC Gypsie accidentally deletes the written by Gustav template for the sermon, which will require the next day the pastor. Together the two hedges of a new speech that children's rights to the content. Gypsie Gustav must confess that he is not the real Emil and initiates him into the secret search for the stolen money a. Gustav helps the gang of children with his technical skills in coordinating the pursuit of the thief.

Emil and the Detectives follow Max Grundeis inconspicuous only on foot and then with a wild car chase in a taxi to the Hotel Adlon, where he takes a room. Ponyhütchen gives to the front desk with a lot of sophistication spare key, while Max Grundeis dined to his room, which she visits with Emil in the restaurant. While Emil vain looking for his money in the Room, located Grundeis proves Hotel thief who enters with stolen keys in the room other guests whose jewelry steals and takes her to his suitcase. It succeeds Emil, to hide in Grundeis ' room when this comes back suddenly. After Grundeis is asleep, Emil takes the suitcase in which he suspects his money. Here, Emil loses the note, are quoted on the time and place of the meeting with the counterfeiters gang. The next morning, this meeting is on at the lockers at Alexanderplatz Underground Station. Pony and Emil find there with the suitcase, but contains no cash, but only jewelry. Why the shop with the two forgers fails. As a pony, however, offers an earring from the ground ice -prey as a pledge, the two crooks can show the case contents. Only a rout in the subway, the children can prevent them, the case is removed.

Also Grundeis who had found Emil's notepad has observed from afar the meeting with the counterfeiters gang and take part in the persecution of the children in order to recover his loot. While the two forgers want to catch the subway on a elevated train track section with a wild car chase on the road running underneath, Grundeis jumps on to the departing subway and clings to the next station the train set firmly. When the children realize that they are persecuted, they attempt to track Triangle Metro Station shake off their pursuers by transfers. In the resulting confusion Emil can escape in a subway with the loot bags, but looks like Grundeis Pony holds and kidnapped hat on the platform. He blackmailed his prey in exchange for pony. The exchange takes place as planned the next morning in front of the giraffe enclosure at the zoo instead: Ponyhütchen comes free, Grundeis get his suitcase back with the loot. However, Emil and the Detectives on leaflets they distribute throughout the city, organized about 1800 children, follow the ground- so that it eventually escapes into the church where Pastor Hummel just holds her, written by Gustav and Gypsie sermon. The children talk about what happened, then wants to flee Grundeis and it comes to riots. Pastor Hummel can call and ring the bells the police. The police arrest Grundeis be moved.

Emil receives DM 5,000 reward that has suspended for the recovery of the stolen jewelry, a hotel guest, and his father gets a job for which he does not need a driver's license. At Emil's next birthday in the autumn holidays he has his license anyway again and loads the entire Berlin gang secretly to the Baltic Sea in order to surprise his son and to reward him for his heroic deed.

Special

In this film the novel Emil and the Detectives was adapted to the conditions in the modern era. Issues such as unemployment and broken families are addressed.

The opinions on the remake are divided. Some see it as a legitimate review of the Kästner novel that deals with the needs of the present generation of children. Others see the original idea and intention so obscured by innovations that it goes almost entirely. Many characters would lose its character, what the story partly decisive influencing and change.

The characters of Pony and " Gustav with the horn " were integrated into completely changed social environments ( Pony is no longer here Emil's cousin, but the boss of a gang of children, who comes from an impoverished host family; Gustav were both his character as well as his trademark, taken the horn, and he became a highly intelligent son of Pastor Hummel ).

Basically, these roles have been interchanged; in a different social environment. The fact that a girl is the leader of the detectives, girls get a strong role model.

Film background

Filming on the Baltic coast play in a nature reserve, which could not be entered for years by people without permission. There is a dune area, as it exists as of Darßer place.

In Berlin, as filming locations including the Zoologischer Garten, Berlin -Kreuzberg, with the exterior of the pub upper tree -Eck, the great star at the Victory Column, the 17th June Street, the Pariser Platz and the Hotel Adlon. One focus scenes with the yellow car in the underground line 1, especially the above ground route through Berlin -Kreuzberg, the Upper tree bridge and U- train station Silesian Gate. The skateboard ride shows, among other things, the Cultural Forum, the Museum Island and the Brandenburg Gate. The roof of the art museum and the Elephant Gate of the zoo were to shooting. Not least, the street in front of the front Wohlthat'schen bookshop in Budapest street can be seen. The crowd scenes play in Schöneberg Red Island and Queen Luise Memorial Church.

Other adaptations

There are a total of eight film adaptations of the book Emil and the Detectives.

  • ( Germany, 1931) - Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
  • ( UK, 1935) - Director: Milton Rosmer
  • (Argentina, 1950) - Director: Antonio Momplet
  • ( Germany, 1954) - Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle
  • (Japan, 1956) - Director: Mitsuo Wakasugi
  • (Brazil, 1958) - Director: Alberto Pieralisi
  • (USA, 1964) - Director: Peter Tewksbury
  • ( Germany, 2001) - Director: Franziska Buch

For direct comparison of the three German films you get some insight in the contemporary taste as well as in the changes of Berlin.

Awards

  • 2001: Golden Sparrow on the German Children's Film and TV Festival
  • 2001: Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay ( Franziska Buch )
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