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The robber Hotzenplotz shows no mercy and steals Grandma's music-making coffee grinder. Naturally, Kasperl and Seppel have something against this and set off in pursuit. But Hotzenplotz overpowers them. Trapped in the robbers' den, one of them is even to be sold to the mysterious magician Petrosilius Zwackelmann...
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 68GoodWatch 68
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 54 min
Longer than most family movies, +19 min on the typical 95
typical 95114Half of all family movies run 88–106 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries
Released
1974
March 8, 1974
52 years ago
Genres
FamilyComedyLanguage
German
Original language
Made in
- Germany
Directing · 1
- Gustav Ehmck Director, Screenplay
Writing · 1
- Otfried Preußler Novel
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GoodWatch score 67Film 2
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