The Olsen Gang goes to Jutland

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang goes to Jutland
Original title Olsen bands in Jylland
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1971
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs , Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Jørgen Skov
cut Ole Steen Nielsen
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Olsen Gang in a tight spot

Successor  →
The Olsen Gang and their big coup

The Olsen Gang goes to Jutland is the third film with the Olsen Gang .

action

In the prison, gang leader Egon Olsen received a plan for a bunker that was built by the German occupiers on the North Sea coast in Jutland during World War II . As Egon found out, there are still supposed to be great Nazi riches there, about which no one except himself knows. So the gang travels to Jutland - whose residents are not exactly respected in Copenhagen - and goes in search of the bunker. When the car breaks down, they run into the scrap dealer Mads Madsen and his silent assistant Betterøv. As it turns out, the beach with the Nazi bunkers is very close. Once there, however, the gang is disappointed to find that the bunker is now largely under water and that the recovery of the treasure will be very difficult.

In order to get start-up capital, Egon tries to open Mads Madsen's safe at night, but is caught by Madsen. When the gang forced him to initiate their project, he agreed to support them with equipment in return for a 50 percent contribution.

It turns out, however, that in addition to the Olsen gang, two other people know about the secret of the treasure: Karin, a former resident of the town, and her companion, the crook Rico. While Rico often acts overheated and even kidnaps Børge (who can outsmart him very quickly and flee), Karin tries to befriend the lieutenant, who commands a small military base above the bunkers.

Nevertheless, the Olsen gang succeeds in recovering the treasure (which consists of dollar bills and gold bars) from the bunker and, after a wild chase, also shakes off Rico. The gang decided unanimously not to stick to the agreement with Mads Madsen and to drive straight to the airport. At this moment the car breaks down. Since Betterøv shows up with his tow truck as if by chance, it can be assumed that he has tampered with the car. Betterøv brings the reluctant gang back to Mads Madsen, where the booty is shared according to the bargain. At Madsen's suggestion, he keeps the gold bars while the Olsen gang gets the dollar bills.

While Benny, Kjeld, Yvonne and Børge celebrate their new wealth in a café in Thisted , Egon brings the money to the savings bank. By chance, however, they discover that the dollar bills are counterfeit money - and at that moment they hear the police sirens, which indicate Egon's recent arrest. Eventually he is transferred to Copenhagen in a police car, while the others travel home by train.

Mads Madsen has nothing of the loot either, since Rico steals it from him. However, Rico is not happy with the gold either, since Betterøv uses a scrap press to destroy his getaway car with the gold in it.

History of origin

The Olsen Gang Goes to Jutland is the only Olsen Gang film that was mostly shot outside of Copenhagen . Filming in the Thy region in northwest Jutland lasted from May 18 to June 23, 1971. The filming location for Mads Madsen's property and the beach with the bunkers were in Vigsø , other filming locations such as the restricted military area with the onshore bunkers that belonged to the Atlantic Wall , or the hotel where Karin and Rico stay, were in nearby Hanstholm ( → Hanstholm Fortress ). Other locations were at the airfield and in the city center of Thisted and in the extreme south of Thy in Agger .

Contrary to the original plans, the scenes inside the bunker were not shot at the original locations, but in the Copenhagen studios, as the thick reinforced concrete walls hindered radio communication.

German synchronizations

There are said to be three German dubbed versions of this film: In addition to the popular DEFA version from 1972, a West German theatrical version from 1973 ( The Olsen Gang in Jutland ) and the ZDF version from 1989 ( gold diggers on the North Sea beach ). The existence of a West German cinema synchro has by no means been proven; on the contrary, it is likely that the DEFA version was used, as in Der Tag der Eule , since there was no official release in theaters and the film was only available for 16 mm distribution.

At DEFA Egon was dubbed for the first time by Karl Heinz Oppel and Kjeld for the only time by Helmut Müller-Lankow . Peter Dommisch was Benny's German voice again. Heide Kipp had her only appearance as Yvonne spokeswoman, while Børge was spoken by Karl Heinz Oppel's son Sebastian. The well-known actor Herbert Köfer spoke to the lieutenant.

In the ZDF synchronization, in addition to the regular speakers ( Harry Wüstenhagen as Egon, Wilfried Herbst as Benny, Hans-Jürgen Wolf as Kjeld and Regina Lemnitz as Yvonne), the voice actors Andreas Hanft as Mads Madsen and Volker Brandt as Rico.

meaning

This film marks an important milestone within the film series: From this film on, the humor and dramaturgy of the Olsen Gang films are consolidated, whereas in the first two films they still differed greatly from the later productions.

The Olsen Gang goes to Jutland is one of the most popular films in the series. Traveling to the locations is an important part of fan culture. In August 2006, a multi-day Olsen Gang event , organized by the Olsen Gang Fan Club Germany , took place in Thisted and the surrounding area . a. Morten Grunwald was present as a guest of honor.

Remarks

  • While Egon is roaming the Nazi bunker, he suddenly discovers a large portrait of Adolf Hitler . This scene was cut out in the DEFA dubbed version. The picture was only inserted again for the DVD edition of the ZYX Music label from 2005; It is missing in the normal version of the DVDs and BluRays of the label Icestorm released from 2013 onwards, but is included in the bonus material (with other shots cut by DEFA).
  • While Erik Balling otherwise also filled the smallest supporting roles with professional actors, he had to hire amateur actors for this film because he could not find suitable actors who could speak the dialect of the Thy region . The Jutland gas station attendant was therefore represented by a fisherman named Hans Rasmussen; the customer, who does business with Mads Madsen in his first scene, played the fisherman Niels Harbo.
  • The fictional Jutland setting, Hauerslev, is named after Erik Hauerslev, the head of the Danish Film Foundation at the time. The Olsen Gang also crosses the towns of Balling (after the director) and Sevel (after the then Nordisk film director Ove Sevel), which actually exist.
  • Ove Verner Hansen stood in front of the camera as a truck driver, but was cut out of the finished film.
  • The film was in Norway as a remake remade under the title Olsenbanden tar gull (The Olsen Gang wins gold) as appropriate continuation in the film series of the Olsen Gang (Norway) .


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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.film3.de/de/inhalt/historie.php
  2. ↑ Frank Eberlein: The large lexicon of the Olsen gang , p. 73
  3. ↑ Information on www.olsenbandenfanclub.de
  4. ↑ Frank Eberlein: The large lexicon of the Olsen gang , p. 235
  5. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” , Pages 121 to 124 and pages 8 to 9; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484