The Olsen Gang never surrenders

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang never surrenders
Original title Olsen-band overgiver sig aldrig
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1979
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs , Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Claus Loof
cut Finn Henriksen
occupation
chronology

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The Olsen Gang climbs onto the roof

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The Olsen Gang flies over the plank

The Olsen Gang Never Succeeds is a Danish crime comedy from 1979. It is the eleventh film with the Olsen gang .

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A break-in by the Olsen gang into a company's vault goes wrong: the new director appears unexpectedly, who has also exchanged the cash that his deceased predecessor used to keep in the vault for checks and credit cards. Egon is arrested again.

After his release from prison, Egon is different: he attended a management course in prison and now wants to get involved in modern financial transactions. His goal is to acquire shares in the renowned Magasin du Nord department store . The majority of shares in it belong to the holding company Daninvest , which has been in the red for a long time and therefore falsifies its books. Egon is tasked with getting the real books and delivering them to the banker Bang-Johansen and his employee Hallandsen. They then want to liquidate Daninvest and pay Egon with shares in Magasin du Nord .

This plan comes in handy for Yvonne, as she is about to become a grandmother, as Børge and his wife Fie are expecting their first child. She is convinced that a department store has everything a baby needs.

The Olsen Gang succeeded in winning the coup at Daninvest in just 2 minutes and 43 seconds. Egon delivers the real books to Bang-Johansen's bank. Bang-Johansen belongs to a Europe-wide ring of business people, the EMCA , who, on behalf of politicians, are supposed to take control of the entire economy of Western Europe. Absolutely nothing of this plan may leak to the public.

However, Bang-Johansen and Hallandsen do not keep their word to Egon, instead Bang-Johansen has the Magasin du Nord closed without further ado . He wants to travel to Brussels to store the files on the EMCA at the EC headquarters there. On the way, however, he is stopped by the Olsen gang with the help of a forklift, and Egon is able to steal the document case from the trunk of his limousine. When he then confronts Hallandsen with the documents, he has him kidnapped by the stupid pig. However, Kjeld and Benny can free him.

The gang is now traveling to the EC headquarters in Brussels, where the files are to be kept until an informal meeting of the EC heads of government to be held in Copenhagen. However, the Olsen gang succeeds in getting the suitcase back into their possession, even if Kjeld's packet of cakes that he brought with him is mistaken for a bomb and "defused".

Back in Copenhagen, Egon brings the suitcase to Hallandsen's office. Unexpectedly, however, inspector Jensen turns up and carries out a search. Egon can hide in time, but Jensen confiscates the suitcase. Until the meeting of statesmen, which is to take place in the private house of the minister responsible, the documents are kept in an armored suitcase in the police headquarters, for which the minister receives the key. On the evening of the meeting, Jensen is supposed to bring the suitcase to the minister's house.

First, the Olsen gang steals the key from the house of the minister, whose wife has a weakness for port wine and an obligation to clean, which makes the coup much easier. The next plan provides for the gang to break into the minister's house in the villa district of Copenhagen-Hellerup during the summit meeting and steal the documents there. The preparations for this coup are interrupted by a sudden call from Yvonne: The birth of Kjeld's grandchild is imminent. He hastily drives to the women's clinic so that Egon and Benny have to carry out the plan on their own. As it turns out, Kjeld has a socket wrench that is extremely important for the coup in his pocket, which is why Benny and Egon have to follow him and get the bag from the women's clinic.

Egon's plan is to be able to penetrate the hermetically sealed area around the minister's house unmolested with the help of a tank. Arrived at the military area, Egon tries to open one of the tanks parked there. It turns out, however, that Benny didn't take Kjeld's bag, but a real midwife's bag from the maternity hospital. With the help of forceps , Egon still manages to open the shell. He and Benny actually manage to drive to the minister's house without any problems, where he can open the suitcase, which Jensen has not guarded for a moment, and take the documents with him. When he turned up at Hallandsen the next day, however, he received bad news: the negotiations had broken down, Denmark was excluded from the EC and the documents have consequently lost their value.

Meanwhile, Børge and Fie have become parents of a son. Benny is chosen as the child's godparent, while Egon is arrested again by the detective assistant Holm.

German synchronizations

Like all films in the series, The Olsen Gang never surrendered in the GDR was dubbed by DEFA . Egon, Benny and Kjeld were dubbed as usual by Karl Heinz Oppel , Peter Dommisch and Erhard Köster , Yvonne for the first time by Helga Sasse .

In 1990, the synchronization of ZDF appeared in West Germany under the title Denmark is ruined .

Remarks

  • The tank used in the film is an M41 Walker Bulldog .
  • Jes Holtsø returned to the Olsen Gang after a two-film break. However, his part only includes two silent scenes.
  • The parking lot attendant, who discovers the tank parked in the city center at the end of the film, is played by Arthur Jensen , who played this role again in The Olsen Gang .
  • In 1981, gir seg aldri! produced a Norwegian remake.


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