The Olsen Gang sees red

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang sees red
Original title Olsen bands ser rødt
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1976
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs , Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Henning Kristiansen
cut Ole Steen Nielsen
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Olsen Gang sets the course

Successor  →
The Olsen Gang strikes again

The Olsen Gang sees red is a Danish crime comedy from 1976. It is the eighth film with the Olsen gang .

action

Through his cell neighbor, a lawyer, Egon made contact with Baron Løvenvold, who belongs to one of the oldest and most respected Danish noble houses. He is in debt and therefore wants to sell a valuable, 1000-year-old Chinese vase from the family to a Dutch businessman. However, since the family council has to agree to the sale of family property and is under no circumstances allowed to find out about the baron's money problems, Egon should pretend a break-in and make the vase disappear.

While discussing the plan in Kjeld's and Yvonne's apartment, Egon also meets Børges fiancée Fie, who, to Yvonne's horror, is already pregnant, so that the urgent wedding is the most important thing in the world in Yvonne's eyes. Fie immediately proves to be downright clumsy and in particular has a habit of dropping fragile items.

Vallø Castle - exterior setting for the baron's residence

The Olsen Gang managed to remove the vase from the Baron's Copenhagen City Palace without any problems. At home, however, Fie drops it at the first opportunity, whereupon Kjeld and Benny laboriously glue the pieces back together and Yvonne has absolutely no understanding for Egon's horror, after all, the vase was already very old. The handover the next morning shows that Egon had once again been betrayed - the police are already waiting for him and he is going to prison. Therefore, the payment of money expected by Yvonne for the wedding does not materialize.

To get any money at all, Benny and Kjeld try to break into a supermarket, but fail. Therefore, Yvonne only sees the way out of getting Egon out of prison early and officially takes over his guardianship. Which means for her that she treats him like a small child: She checks his fingernails and tells him how long he can stay away in the evening. Egon desperately wants to take revenge on the baron by exchanging the real vase in his castle for a worthless copy right before the sale. Hidden in the catering company, the gang can break into the castle and exchange the vase, but on the run Egon stumbles into a centuries-old trap with the real vase in one of the castle dungeons and is then walled in alive by Frits, the baron's bodyguard. Benny and Kjeld, who are waiting for him outside, are able to track him down and free him.

Royal theater
Børge and Fie get married in the Jesus Church in Valby

To wipe out this gap, Egon devises a new plan. After handing over the vase, the baron plans to attend a performance of Friedrich Kuhlaus national play Elverhøj in the Royal Theater with his Dutch guest . While the overture is being played, the Olsen Gang, under Egon's direction, who is also reading the score , paves the way through the individual lounges of the theater staff, all of which are separated from one another by solid walls, in time with the loud passages with the help of drills, crowbars and explosives , to an elevator that Børge takes to the baron's box. At that moment, the Danish royal hymn Kong Christian stod ved højen mast sounds in the overture , to which the audience traditionally rises so that Børge can unnoticed remove the vase and suitcase from the guards they were sitting on.

After the successful coup, Børge and Fie get married, and immediately afterwards the Olsen gang drives the vase to the police to collect the reward on the valuable piece. As expected, Fie drops the vase there so that it shatters, which Commissioner Jensen is quite right, since on the other hand he should have arrested the influential baron on the basis of this evidence, which would have ruined his career. At the decision of the family council, the baron is walled up in the cellar like Egon before.

When Egon wants to present the money stolen from the vase to Yvonne, only Børge and Fie's luggage is in the suitcase. Fie took the suitcase with the money with her on the trip. When Yvonne announced that she could now look after Egon much more intensively, Egon preferred to go back to prison voluntarily.

History of origin

The Overture to Elverhøj for the famous scene in the Royal Theater was chosen rather at random. Director Erik Balling heard the Olsen Gang melody on the radio at home, and immediately afterwards the overture to Elverhøj was played. "When I heard the two melodies one after the other on the radio, I had it: We could do the scenes in the Royal Theater during the Overture to Elverhøj."

The idea of ​​drowning out noisy criminal activity with even louder classic passages had already been implemented in the film adaptations of The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alfred Hitchcock from 1934 and 1956: Here, a shot was supposed to be covered up by a specific hit in the basin.

German synchronizations

Like all films in the series, this film was dubbed in the GDR by DEFA . It is one of three Olsen gang films that were not seen in the cinema in the GDR, but only on television. Egon, Benny and Kjeld were spoken, as usual, by Karl Heinz Oppel , Peter Dommisch and Erhard Köster ; Margit Bendokat dubbed Yvonne for the fifth and last time. The well-known actor Herbert Köfer played a supporting role as head chef.

In West Germany, the synchronization of ZDF appeared in 1989 under the title Schlagbohrer mit Musik .

meaning

The scene in the Royal Theater is viewed by many fans as well as numerous participants as one of the highlights of the entire film series. The activities of the Olsen Gang, which are precisely tailored to the music, are reminiscent of old cartoons, more precisely of a reversal of the so-called Mickey Mousing . For almost ten minutes from the start of the music at around 01:23:00, the film's plot time and running time are synchronized.

Ove Sprogøe and Poul Bundgaard considered The Olsen Gang sees red as their favorite movie. Screenwriter Henning Bahs, on the other hand, criticized the rather weak dramaturgy of this film, apart from the theater sequence.

With 1.2 million tickets sold, the film is still the most successful Danish cinema production. Titanic and The Lord of the Rings only : The companions were seen by more people in Denmark (as of 2008). However, no such data was collected before 1976.

Remarks

Vilhelm Marstrand: Christian IV in the battle on the Kolberger Heide
Claus Møinichen: Battle of Öland
  • In this film, in view of the recurring characters (and actors) and always the same plot elements of the series, a clear tendency of the scriptwriters to self-parody can be seen: Benny knows in advance that Egon's cellmate was again a helpful lawyer, the baron's safe “an English one Brand “(according to Egon) comes from the Francis Hunter company, Birmingham (an English translation by the usual manufacturer Franz Jäger ), and to top it off, Egon ends up throwing himself in prison. Also Ove Verner Hansen , whose role name in this film Frits reads, "this stupid pig" referred to in a scene from Benny as that was his role name in the previous Olsen Gang films.
  • Børge actor Jes Holtsø was involved in this film not only as an actor but also as a prop assistant.
  • The film was remake in 1976 as Olsenbanden for full musikk in Norway.
  • While Egon Kjeld and Benny tell the family history of the Løvenvolds, various historical paintings are shown. Among other things, it is a painting by Vilhelm Marstrand , which shows King Christian IV in the sea ​​battle on the Kolberger Heide . Another picture, to which Egon notes that a member of the Løvenvold family even donated their own ship to the Navy, shows a depiction of the sea ​​battle at Öland by the painter Claus Møinichen . However, the exploding ship shown is not a Danish ship, but the Swedish Kronan ship of the line , which capsized and exploded during the battle.
  • Baron Løvenvold's castle is actually the more than 500 year old Vallø Castle , which was used as a retirement home for unmarried noble ladies. The castle was only used as an exterior backdrop, all interior locations were built in the Nordisk Film studios. The women were shown the film before its official premiere.
  • The kitchen of the catering company Maxim was the kitchen of the Hotel d'Angleterre . Shooting there began at 4:00 a.m., before normal operations began.
  • During the filming, the conductor stood alone without an orchestra and was led by Balling. The audience in the concert hall is a background projection.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ John Lindskog, Skide godt, Egon! 30 år med Olsen banden , p. 56
  2. ^ A b Frank Eberlein: The large lexicon of the Olsen gang , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, p. 234/235
  3. ↑ Danmarks Statistics : Statistical Yearbook 2009, Education and culture , Tab. 99 (PDF file; 893 kB)
  4. ↑ Morten Grunwald: My days in yellow socks, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-374-4 , p. 121ff.
  5. ↑ Morten Grunwald: My days in yellow socks, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-374-4 , p. 125
  6. ↑ Morten Grunwald: My days in yellow socks, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-374-4 , p. 137