Erich Kastner's much-filmed 1928 children's classic, "Emil and the Detectives," comes up fresh as a daisy in this ebullient modernization of the story about a bunch of kids who track down a thief ...

Why Emil and the Detectives author Erich Kästner wouldn't bow to the Nazis. Boyd Tonkin looks back at the writer's life as Kästner's evergreen tale previews at the National this week.

This 2001 German feature is the fourth adaptation of Erich Kastner’s 1928 novel, about a 12-year-old boy who gets robbed en route to Berlin and enlists a team of street kids (the “detectives ...

Although Emil is convinced that the slightly weird man in the carriage – in the book, Herr Grundeis, in the play, an Oliver Hardy-like Stuart McQuarrie as Mr Snow) – is the thief, it’s the main source ...

Read Erich Kästner’s 1928 novel about young Emil Tischbein and the Berlin boys he enlists to catch a thief, and you’ll come away feeling warm if slightly incredulous at the strong moral compass of all ...

Bijan Sheibani’s production of ”Emil and the Detectives” opened at the NT Olivier last night (4 December 2013) ...