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The Pasta Detectives

The Pasta Detectives

20146.31h 35m

Overview

The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life.

Directed by Neele Vollmar
Written by Andreas Bradler, Klaus Döring, Christian Lerch
Produced by Philipp Budweg, Robert Marciniak
Box Office0Revenue: $5.0M

Top Cast

Anton Petzold

Anton Petzold

Rico Doretti

Juri Sam Winkler

Juri Sam Winkler

Oskar

Karoline Herfurth

Karoline Herfurth

Tanja Doretti

Axel Prahl

Axel Prahl

Herr Marrak

Ronald Zehrfeld

Ronald Zehrfeld

Simon Westbühl

Ursela Monn

Ursela Monn

Elke Dahling

David Kross

David Kross

Rainer Kiesling

Milan Peschel

Milan Peschel

Gustav Fitzke

Anke Engelke

Anke Engelke

Eisverkäuferin

Katharina Thalbach

Katharina Thalbach

Ellie Wandbeck

Themes & Keywords

woman director

About The Pasta Detectives

The Pasta Detectives is a family, adventure, comedy film released in 2014 exploring themes of woman director. Directed by Neele Vollmar, it stars Anton Petzold, Juri Sam Winkler, Karoline Herfurth. The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life.

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