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...

Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever;...

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...

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

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house....

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...

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

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

This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal...

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

A young, inquisitive girl named Nargess encounters a girl from another school who could pass as her twin. Amazed by the strange coincidence, the two...

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

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

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...