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The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family 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 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led 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.
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Tobias Retzlaff
Emil Tischbein
Anja Sommavilla
Pony Hütchen
Jürgen Vogel
Max Grundeis
Maria Schrader
Pastorin Hummel
Kai Wiesinger
Knut Tischbein
Max Befort
Gypsi
Maurice Kumar
Kebab
Sergej Moya
Flügel
David Klock
Gustav Hummel
Tobias Unkauf
Dienstag
Thando Walbaum
Hassouna
Rudolf Kowalski
Lehrer Hummel
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