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Emil and the Detectives

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Emil and the Detectives is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus. It is based on the 1929 novel by Erich Kästner, who also contributed to the film's script. The film script was written by Billy Wilder. It is generally considered to be the best film adaption of Emil and the Detectives. Plot Set in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the film begins in the small provincial town of Neustadt, the home to schoolboy Emil Tischbein. His father is dead and his hairdresser mother raises him alone. She sends him to Berlin with 140 marks (equivalent to her monthly income) to give to his grandmother who lives with his young female cousin, Pony Hütchen. He also gets 20 marks for himself. On the train, Emil meets a sinister man who introduces himself as Herr Grundeis. Emil, suspicious, goes to the toilet and uses a pin to secure the three banknotes inside his jacket lining. Grundeis offers Emil a sweet, but it is drugged: Emil starts hallucinating and falls asleep. When he wakes up at the station in Berlin, Grundeis and the money are gone. However, he spots Grundeis at the exit and follows him. Emil dares not call the police, because he had played a prank by dressing up a monument to imitate a local official, so feels that he is "a kind of criminal" himself. However, he meets a local boy named Gustav who offers to help him and assembles other children who call themselves "the detectives" to help. After following Grundeis to a hotel and spying on him all night, Emil and the gang chase him into a bank. When Grundeis tries to exchange the notes, Emil accuses him of theft, proving that the money is his by mentioning the holes left in the bills by the pin he used to secure them to his lining. Grundeis tries to flee, but Emil's gang of new friends hold onto him until the police arrive. Once arrested, Grundeis is discovered to be a wanted bank robber and Emil receives a reward of 1000 marks. The film ends with a private plane taking Emil back to Neustadt, where he is greeted as a local hero with speeches and a band.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Emil and the Detectives: novel for children by Erich Kästner · 1954 film · 2001 German family film directed by Franziska Buch · 1935 film by Milton Rosmer

Overview

Emil and the Detectives is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus. It is based on the 1929 novel by Erich Kästner, who also contributed to the film's script. The film script was written by Billy Wilder. It is generally considered to be the best film adaption of Emil and the Detectives. Plot Set in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the film begins in the small provincial town of Neustadt, the home to schoolboy Emil Tischbein. His father is dead and his hairdresser mother raises him alone. She sends him to Berlin with 140 marks (equivalent to her monthly income) to give to his grandmother who lives with his young female cousin, Pony Hütchen. He also gets 20 marks for himself. On the train, Emil meets a sinister man who introduces himself as Herr Grundeis. Emil, suspicious, goes to the toilet and uses a pin to secure the three banknotes inside his jacket lining. Grundeis offers Emil a sweet, but it is drugged: Emil starts hallucinating and falls asleep. When he wakes up at the station in Berlin, Grundeis and the money are gone. However, he spots Grundeis at the exit and follows him. Emil dares not call the police, because he had played a prank by dressing up a monument to imitate a local official, so feels that he is "a kind of criminal" himself. However, he meets a local boy named Gustav who offers to help him and assembles other children who call themselves "the detectives" to help. After following Grundeis to a hotel and spying on him all night, Emil and the gang chase him into a bank. When Grundeis tries to exchange the notes, Emil accuses him of theft, proving that the money is his by mentioning the holes left in the bills by the pin he used to secure them to his lining. Grundeis tries to flee, but Emil's gang of new friends hold onto him until the police arrive. Once arrested, Grundeis is discovered to be a wanted bank robber and Emil receives a reward of 1000 marks. The film ends with a private plane taking Emil back to Neustadt, where he is greeted as a local hero with speeches and a band.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).