Re: Emil and the Detectives and The Land of Cockaigne

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:58:25 +0200, Joerg Walther
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>>Emil and the Detectives
>>and
>>The Land of Cockaigne
>>
>>Both were, I believe, written by German authors between the world
>>wars, and I wonder whether anyone else remembers reading them. 
>
>I only know Emil und die Detektive, written by Erich Kästner. In fact,
>this one is still very popular in Germany and I have read it more than
>once with my 5th graders. It has been turned into a film 3 times, the
>oldest one is from 1931 and the script was written by Billy Wilder, who
>later made it big in Hollywood. I would definitely recommend this for
>watching, it's so lovingly made and it shows the old Berlin from before
>the war but I do not know if an English version, whether synchronized or
>subtitled, is available.

Thanks very much. Good to see that it is still popular with today's
kids. Some say that they won't like it because there are no cell
phones etc. 


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