… Men Olsen Gangs var ikke død!

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Movie
German title But the Olsen gang wasn't dead! (Title on festival)
Original title … Men Olsen Gangs var ikke død!
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 1984
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Knut Bohwim
script Knut Bohwim
Gustav Kramer
production Per A. Anonsen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Mattis Mathiesen
cut Per A. Anonsen
occupation

… Men Olsen Gangs var ikke død! , German Festival Title: ... But the Olsen Gang was not dead , English title: ... But the Olsen Gang Was not Dead is the thirteenth movie from the film series of the Olsen Gang (Norway) . The Norwegian comedy film by Knut Bohwim is an independent sequel without a Danish Olsen Gang template and had its cinema premiere on September 6, 1984 .

action

The Norwegian Olsen Gang lives in luxury in Monte Carlo until they lose their money to the stupid pig (Biffen).
The red and yellow version of the picture The Scream by Edvard Munch also steals the Olsen Gang.
In France, in the Villa Ephrussi by Beatrice de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat they want to sell their stolen art to a collector.
There is a pile-up at the roundabout in front of Oslo's Bislett Stadium . The Olsen Gang is losing its prey.

Egon Olsen and the Olsen Gang are supposed to be "saviors of world peace" and are accompanied to Oslo Airport in a luxury limousine and a police escort. At the airport, a chartered waiting SAS Scandinavian Airlines - aircraft on them, which with the millions from their last successful coup of a dark arms deal right after Monte Carlo will bring. Her former adversary, Detective Inspector Hermansen, and a police orchestra solemnly bid her farewell as she boarded her plane. What the Olsen Gang did not notice yet: their greatest enemy, the stupid pig (Biffen), is sitting in the cockpit of the aircraft.

As soon as the Olsen gang arrived in Monaco, the stupid pig (Biffen) was already watching their arrival and was able to find their whereabouts. The Olsen Gang settled on a luxury yacht at the port of Monte Carlo in Monaco. They enjoy their lives in abundance and happiness until Biffen observes them again and sneaks up to their yacht with diving equipment . The Olsen Gang has just for a fun champagne - drink to Siesta go. The stupid pig swims to the Olsen Gang yacht and finally climbs aboard the ship. With the help of a bolt cutter, he steals from Egon, who is the only one on deck in his chair, his red suitcase, which he has chained to his chair.

The other members of the Olsen gang do not notice anything, they have just retired to their cabins below deck. When Egon wakes up again and is finally supposed to pay his captain's luxury stay on his yacht, he realizes that all the money is gone. But Biffen has swam far away with the suitcase and is out of reach. Egon cannot pay because of this, the captain calls the police. Benny, Kjell and Valborg flee in good time before the police arrive and jump overboard. Egon Olsen is arrested as an alleged impostor and is returned to the Botsfengselet prison in Oslo .

Two years later, Olsen is dismissed and received by a choir of Norwegian law students who see him as an innocent convict. Benny and Kjell also pick him up from prison in the usual way. When Egon is at Kjell's home, he realizes that Kjell's wife Valborg has now completely devoted herself to painting and art and is attending painting courses. But this time Benny has a plan to get some money again. So they decide to break into the Munch Museum in Oslo in order to steal the famous painting The Scream in an art heist.

During her attempts at painting, Valborg also recreates several pictures by Munch that even look very real. The Olsen Gang therefore plans to secretly steal Valborg Munch's painting and exchange it for the original. With the help of a manipulation of the surveillance camera and video surveillance as well as other tricks they manage to steal the image The Scream . Egon knows a suspected buyer, an interested art collector in France , to whom they then want to sell the work of art. What they don't know at the time: Valborg has the same idea of ​​getting the picture, but she just wants to "borrow" the picture so that she can redraw it better. Since she works as a cleaner in the Munch Museum, she just secretly swaps the Munch painting with her own picture when the opportunity arises. The Olsen Gang finally has to exchange the picture again. In the end, nobody really knows where the real or the wrong picture is. Ultimately, however, the Olsen Gang succeeds in getting the right picture back into their hands. Valborg also exchanges other pictures for her self-made forgeries in order to be able to copy them better.

In order to get to France cheaply, the Olsen gang stole a few flight tickets from the tour operator Saga for a trip to Nice in a daring action . In the nearby town of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat , they meet the art lover and collector Cap Cheval in his villa Ephrussi de Rothschild , the former residence of Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild . He is also ready to purchase the picture for a large sum. Cap Cheval is enthusiastic about the picture The Scream , but suggests an investigation into whether it is actually a real Munch work. Valborg also tells the art collector Cap Cheval that she has over 130 other paintings, mainly by Edvard Munch, at home and that she would sell them if necessary. Since he is a bit irritated by this and would like to convince himself of the authenticity of these pictures before he also wants to buy something, he calls his old friend, the art dealer Fillinger in Oslo , for more information on the home of the Olsen Gang receive. The art dealer senses big business and calls Biffen, the stupid pig. He should be able to look around the Olsen Gang at home again to see what other pictures are about and possibly steal them for him. After Biffen breaks into the front door, the art dealer looks at the pictures and realizes that they are all obviously wrong, as this is probably just Valborg's painting skills. He slaps Biffen in the face and leaves the domicile angrily.

After the Olsen gang is back home in Norway, they vacate Valborg's studio and prepare to emigrate again and to sell the stolen Munch paintings. The stupid pig is after Egon again and now wants to get rid of him for good. After a blow on the head, he kidnaps Egon and takes him to the Tivoli Circus in his Toyota pickup, where he wants to cut him in half on a sawed-up virgin utensil with the help of a circular saw . Apparently the magic box doesn't work the way the stupid pig imagines it. Before he can finally eliminate Egon, Benny and Kjell come to his aid and can save their boss.

They arranged another meeting with the art collector Cap Cheval near the Trinity Church (Trefoldighetskirken) in Oslo for the final handover of the Munch pictures for money. As fate would have it, her old friend, Detective Inspector Hermansen, is also nearby. He's conducting a porn raid across the street for illegal sex videos in a video store. On the opening credits of an illegal sex rental video by the Olsen gang, he finds recordings with the Olsen gang in the Munch Museum and Valborg's erotic pictures painted in Munch style, whereupon Hermansen suspects that the Olsen gang is the producer of this porn filth. When he leaves the video store, he also sees Egon Olsen, who is currently handing over the works of art for money to the French art collector in front of his nose.

The Olsen gang is now fleeing with their Toyota Corona . The art dealer with his Peugeot 505 also follows them. There is now a big chase through Oslo, in which police cars and plainclothes policemen always crash into them. When driving at over 100 km / h through the narrow streets and downtown Oslo, over ten cars end up following the Olsen Gang. The wild chase ends on the outskirts of Oslo at Bislett Stadium . The seemingly endless journey of the pursuers that follows ends in the roundabout at a traffic island when the Oslo tram suddenly appears. A police car brakes and there is a pile-up while the tram gets away without damage. Benny and Kjell quickly leave the vehicle and flee. Even the art collector who has been on the road leaves the crime scene very quickly. Egon, who still wants to save the Munch pictures in the car, has the police arrested immediately. Hermansen sees a historical (or fake) Munch Madonna picture as pornographic material and tears up all the works of art from the Olsen gang's car in anger.

At the end, Valborg presents her painting skills in a vernissage with a large picture of her husband Kjell, drawn in the Munch style. In the end, Egon drives back to the Oslo State Prison for a long time .

Reviews

“The film is adorable and genuinely Norwegian. - Basically, in my opinion, the films about the Olsen Gang were an enjoyable and lovable contribution to an entertainment industry in which cynicisms and sadisms creep into us with seductive jugglers' tricks. The Olsen Gang has something really Norwegian about it, although it was originally Danish (like Norway too). "

- arab : Stavanger Aftenblad, translation by Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs in I have a plan!

History of origin

  • The film begins with the same scene as the previous film Olsenbandens aller siste kupp ends, where they bid farewell to millionaires from Oslo Airport.
  • This film is the only Norwegian Olsen Gang film that was shot entirely without any originals or scripts from the Danish Olsen Gang films. After the last film Olsenbanden aller siste kupp was shot in Norway in 1982 for this film series and the Olsenbande series was officially ended in Denmark with The Olsenbande flies over all mountains (1981), there were no Danish templates from Henning Bahs and Erik Balling more. The director of the Norwegian Olsen Gang Knut Bohwim therefore decided to write the script for his thirteenth film himself. His original screenplay was published in advance in a comic in 1983 , under the title: Olsenbanden raner hurtigruta (The Olsenbande plunder the Hurtigruten). This was also reprinted in several episodes in Norwegian newspapers and then published as a comic album, which was a great success in Norway. Major parts of the comic took place on a Hurtigruten ship , where the Olsen Gang carried out a daring coup. To implement the film project in this way would have been very time-consuming and would have also required greater financial support. Therefore, despite appropriate efforts, the script for this planned film could never be implemented in this way. The plot of the original script was therefore rewritten or heavily changed by Knut Bohwim and Gustav Kramer , and the Hurtigruten coup was left out and shelved . The film began in late April 1984 and ended in the summer of that year.
  • The film was produced by Teamfilm AS with support from Nordisk Film , as well as their film studio and set in Valby . The locations were not only in Oslo , but also in France in Nice , Alpes-Maritimes and in Monte Carlo , Monaco .

Trivia

  • Knut Bohwim and the other filmmakers were later accused several times of having inspired the perpetrators of the later break-ins and art theft in the Munch Museum Oslo in 1994, 2004 and 2006 and the theft of works of art by Edvard Munch through their Olsen Gang film . In the spectacular art theft in 2004, the red-orange version of the picture The Scream was stolen, which was also stolen from the film. This was found two years later and it was found that the painting had been so destroyed by the robbery that it was not possible to restore it.

Remarks

  • Under the title ... But the Olsen Gang was not dead , the film was presented in 1997 at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck . The film has since been released on VHS , DVD and Blu-Ray . A German-language publication does not yet exist for this film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : I have a plan! Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-924214-48-4 , p. 159.
  2. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs: I have a plan! Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-924214-48-4 , p. 121.
  3. ↑ In: Stavanger Aftenblad. Stavanger, September 1984; German translation by and from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs: I have a plan! Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-924214-48-4 , p. 162.
  4. ↑ Olsenbanden - tegneserier ( memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), olsenbandenfanclub.webs.com, January 3, 2014 in Norwegian
  5. ↑ Aftenposten Weekend. - Olsen Gang (Oslo, April 28, 1984)
  6. ↑ Another work of art stolen from Munch. In: time online. November 18, 2009.
  7. ↑ Toska-avtalen hindrer oppklaring av Munch-ranet. on: aftenbladet.no , August 15, 2007.
  8. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs: I have a plan! Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-924214-48-4 , pp. 8-9.