The Olsen gang runs amok
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German title | The Olsen gang runs amok | ||
Original title | Olsen-band går amok | ||
Country of production | Denmark | ||
original language | Danish | ||
Publishing year | 1973 | ||
length | 100 minutes | ||
Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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Director | Erik Balling | ||
script |
Henning Bahs , Erik Balling |
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production | Bo Christensen | ||
music | Bent Fabricius-Bjerre | ||
camera | Jørgen Skov | ||
cut | Ole Steen Nielsen | ||
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok is a 1973 Danish crime comedy . It is the fifth film from the series with the Olsen Gang .
action
At the beginning of the film, the Olsen gang wants to steal the daily income of a cinema, but it fails. Benny had betrayed the theft plan to his brother Harry, who is a specialist in blowing up safes, but is very unreliable. Harry turns up unexpectedly and drunk at the scene and completely messes up Egon's plan by triggering an alarm system that was actually deactivated. Egon fails to escape and is arrested again.
After Egon was released from prison eight months later, he is astonished to find that his gang members Kjeld and Benny have broken away from him. The reason for this is Benny, who thinks he has found a new way to get rid of his financial worries: He wants to marry Ragna, the daughter of the shop owner Kvist, so that he can take over his shop later. Egon has to look for a place to stay and finds a place to stay with Benny's brother Dynamit-Harry. In order to carry out his actual plan, which revolves around the safe of the shady entrepreneur Hallandsen, he participates in a burglary planned by Harry. As it turns out, this leads to Kvist's shop, of all places, where Egon unexpectedly meets Benny and Kjeld, who are doing unpaid overtime. Egon escapes in time, Kvist then thinks Kjeld and Benny are the intruders and has them arrested. Together with Børge, Egon is able to free the two of them - thanks to his extensive knowledge of transporting prisoners - and the three make up again. Egon can finally begin to prepare his actual plan with Benny and Kjeld.
The entrepreneur Hallandsen has deposited more than ten million kronor in black money in his vault , which is later to be removed from the country. The police are also on the trail of Hallandsen and are monitoring his company. Detective Inspector Jensen hopes that the solution to this case will finally give him personal recognition again. The Olsen gang's first attempt at break-in almost fails again when Egon is locked in a refrigerator and can only be released with the help of Dynamite Harry. The evening before the planned coup, the Kvists unexpectedly appear to reconcile with Benny and Kjeld. Egon is angry when Benny decides to stick to his old marriage plans with Ragna. He leaves Kjeld and Benny and begins to realize his plan on his own.
At a big reconciliation celebration with Benny, Kjeld, Ragna and their families, however, it comes to light that Ragna's father also suffers from money problems and is hoping for a solution from Benny. Kjeld and Benny Egon, dismayed, rush to help and leave the wailing Ragna behind. In fact, the three of them manage to get Hallandsen's millions and flee with a van. When the police want to open the safe a little later as part of their investigation, they want to enlist the help of Egon.
When the police show up at the Jensens and take Egon with them for this favor, Benny and Kjeld panic throwing the money into a garbage can, which is emptied shortly afterwards. While Egon helps the police and opens the empty safe, Benny and Kjeld can only watch that the money has ended up in the waste incineration plant. Egon has Jensen reward him with a few bills and takes him to the airport to flee to Mallorca with the others. Jensen stands there as a failure when it is discovered that the vault is empty. The last shot shows how the Caravelle , in which the Olsen gang is sitting, turns into a rolling course when Benny tells Egon what happened to the money.
German synchronization
Like all films in the series, this film was dubbed in the GDR by DEFA . Benny was not spoken by Peter Dommisch in this film , but by Kurt Kachlicki . This is probably the reason why Benny's standard expression “Skidegodt!” Was not dubbed as “Mighty, powerful!”, But as “Das fetzt ein!” In this film. Karl Heinz Oppel was, as usual, the German voice of Egon, Günter Schubert had his second and last appearance as Kjeld voice actor.
Remarks
- The actors of Kaufmann Kvist and his daughter Ragna, Ejner Federspiel and Birgitte Federspiel , were also father and daughter in real life.
- In this film, Egon appears as a foreign businessman who speaks German in the original but English in the dubbed version. In the DEFA dubbed version, too, its supposedly German origin remains recognizable by the German license plate of the Lincoln Continental used (DS-M 82). The license plate belongs to the district of Donaueschingen (Baden-Württemberg), which was dissolved on January 1, 1973 in the course of the district reform (cinema premiere in Denmark was on October 5, 1973).
- The cinema the Olsen Gang tries to rob at the beginning of the film is the Copenhagen Palads , which is where most of the premiere parties for the Olsen Gang films took place. The poster for a film called Det store kup is a reference to the previous Olsen gang film .
- The sentence of the detective inspector “The trail leads to a house in Christianshavn” is an allusion to the popular TV series Oh, these tenants , whose original title was Huset på Christianshavn . Erik Balling also directed many of the episodes, and the cast included Ove Sprogøe, Kirsten Walther and Jes Holtsø.
- With Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok the film was re-filmed in Norway in 1973 almost at the same time.
literature
- Frank Eberlein , Frank-Burkhard Habel : The Olsen Gang. The big book for fans. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, expanded new edition 2000, ISBN 3-89602-056-0 .
- Frank Eberlein: The large lexicon of the Olsen Gang . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-361-6 .
- Hauke Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” The Olsen gang. Slapstick comedy between slapstick and subversion. Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-924214-48-4 .