The Olsen Gang flies over the plank

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang flies over the plank
Original title Olsen-bandens flies over plankeværket
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1981
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs , Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Peter Klitgaard
cut Finn Henriksen
occupation
chronology

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The Olsen Gang never surrenders

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The Olsen Gang flies over the mountains

The Olsen Gang flies over the plank is a Danish crime comedy from 1981. It is the twelfth film with the Olsen gang . Together with the subsequent film The Olsen Gang flies over the mountains , the film tells a unified story of around three hours in length.

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Egon had a terrible time in prison - the new director has studied psychology and wants him to be placed in the psychiatric department. Therefore Egon would like to retire and is only planning one last, completely harmless coup, in which only "a few billion" should jump out. Throughout the film, Yvonne is busy planning her silver wedding anniversary and cannot think of anything else, so Benny and Kjeld have to clean the silverware every free minute. Egon offers Yvonne and Kjeld in a solemn speech to finance the celebration out of gratitude to them, and thus gets Yvonne's approval to harness Kjeld in his coup.

As usual, the Olsen Gang breaks into the headquarters of the Hoher Norden insurance company (tools: a smelly cheese, a Christmas tree candle, a bamboo pole and a daily newspaper) and steals from the Franz Jäger safe there - the last piece that Franz Jäger built, which puts them in a very dignified mood - a suitcase with money that the director of the company, Bang-Johansen, and his deputy director Hallandsen have embezzled.

It soon turns out that the loss of this suitcase is far more serious than expected for the two businessmen. Because the gatekeeper of the company, the stupid pig ( Ove Verner Hansen ), is assigned to Egon and also manages several times to overpower Egon, but Benny and Kjeld can free him again and again.

After the gang finally took the suitcase from Hallandsen at Copenhagen Airport, who was planning to travel to Paris for a conference , it turned out that there was no more money in it. But Benny discovers a false bottom in the suitcase that contains an envelope with business papers. According to this, Bang-Johansen and Hallandsen work for an international arms dealers' ring that conducts prohibited business all over the world.

With this knowledge Egon would like to blackmail Bang-Johansen, but takes out a high life insurance policy before the negotiations, so that his killing is not worthwhile for society. Nevertheless he is kidnapped by the stupid pig. At the last second, Kjeld and Benny can save him in a chemical factory, where the stupid pig wants to throw him into a cauldron with a highly caustic bubbling liquid.

This ends the film and only shows a few thumbnails of the next part.

Remarks

  • Erik Balling and Henning Bahs originally planned to end the Olsen Gang series with the twelfth film. The production company Nordisk Film A / S persuaded the two to produce a two-part film on the occasion of their 75th anniversary in autumn 1981.
  • The film ends with a sequence of still images previewing the thirteenth film. However, this part was cut out for most of the TV broadcasts.
  • Like all films in the series, this one was dubbed by DEFA in the GDR . The cast of the dubbing roles was identical in the twelfth and thirteenth films: Karl Heinz Oppel as Egon, Peter Dommisch as Benny, Erhard Köster as Kjeld and Helga Sasse as Yvonne. Jensen and Holm were spoken to again by Dietmar Richter-Reinick and Gert Kießling .
  • On the German DVD covers, the film is titled Die Olsenbande fly over the planks (2002) and The Olsen gang fly over all the planks (2006).
  • The logo of the insurance company Hoher Norden , a polar bear on a globe, is in reality the logo of Nordisk Film .
  • Both Tommy Kenter (as an Italian quarry worker) and Kurt Ravn (as a truck driver) play supporting roles in this film . In 1998, after Poul Bundgaard's death while filming The (Really) Very Last Prank of the Olsen Gang , Kenter became the body double for the role of Kjeld, where he was dubbed by Ravn.
  • In order to remove the suitcase from Vice Director Hallandsen at Copenhagen Airport, Egon explains in his plan: We need a Norwegian . The supposed Norwegian passenger, from whom Benny then borrows the plane ticket, was played by the Norwegian actor Sverre Wilberg . Otherwise, in the Norwegian versions of the Olsen gang, he always embodied their opponent, Detective Inspector Hermansen. The Egon Olsen actor of the Norwegian Olsen Gang , Arve Opsahl , also played a Norwegian at Copenhagen Airport.
  • In Norway this film was remade in 1982 together with its successor The Olsen Gang flies over the mountains , summarized there for the twelfth film Olsenbandens aller siste kupp .

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