Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch.

It is a film adaptation of the 1949 novel Lisa and Lottie (German: Das doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner.

Two 12-year-old girls, Charlotte "Charlie" Palfy from Berlin and Louise Kröger from Hamburg, meet on a train going to a language school in Scotland.

Louise, who grew up with her mother, who works in advertising, wears conservative clothing and is rather shy and quiet.

He gets on the train back to Berlin, but before the train has pulled out of the station, he finds a note by Charlie in his pocket saying "Es gibt Momente im Leben, da muss man die Notbremse ziehen" ("There are moments in life in which you've got to pull the emergency brake" - Note: In German, the expression "die Notbremse ziehen" can also mean "to pull out of a situation before it's too late").