Erich Kästner Movies

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in...

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand...

One day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When Alois, the lion, learns that the 365th Peace Conference...

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the...

A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while...

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a...

When young Martina takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school, she finds herself caught in the rivalry between the...

Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do,...

The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer...

A gang of children has a gang of robbers arrested.

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his...

A wealthy citizen of Salzburg wants to write a play about ordinary people.