Emil & The Detectives

A thrilling detective adventure based on the classic novel by Erich Kastner.

The story begins in Neustadt, a (fictional) provincial German town which is the home to young schoolboy Emil Tischbein. His father is dead and his mother raises him alone working as a hairdresser.

She sends Emil to Berlin with money to give to his grandmother. On the train to Berlin, Emil meets a mysterious man who gives him chocolate which makes him fall asleep. When he wakes up, the money and the man are gone.

Emil gets off the train and starts his search for the man and the money, getting on his side the help of some local children who call themselves "the detectives".