Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When young Emil is sent to Berlin by his mother the money he is carrying to give to his granny is stolen by a sinister man on the train Once in Berlin Emil follows the thief & enlists the help of a gang of youngsters -&the detectives&- to help retrieve the stolen money This classic 1931 German adaptation of Erich Kastner&s much-loved children&s book was written by Kastner himself in collaboration with the legendary Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard The Apartment) & an uncredited Emeric Pressburger (A Matter of Life & Death The Red Shoes) One of the first German sound films Emil & the Detectives provides a fascinating glimpse of Berlin before Nazism & the Second World War