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.
Tobias Retzlaff
as Emil Tischbein
Anja Sommavilla
as Pony Hütchen
Jürgen Vogel
as Max Grundeis
Maria Schrader
as Pastorin Hummel
Kai Wiesinger
as Knut Tischbein
Max Befort
as Gypsi
Maurice Kumar
as Kebab
Sergej Moya
as Flügel
David Klock
as Gustav Hummel
Tobias Unkauf
as Dienstag
Thando Walbaum
as Hassouna
Rudolf Kowalski
as Lehrer Hummel
