The Olsen gang climbs onto the roof

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Movie
German title The Olsen gang climbs onto the roof
Original title Olsen-band går i krig
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1978
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs , Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Jeppe M. Jeppesen
cut Ole Steen Nielsen
occupation
chronology

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The Olsen Gang strikes again

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The Olsen Gang never surrenders

The Olsen Gang Rises on the Roof is a Danish crime comedy from 1978. It is the tenth film with the Olsen Gang .

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Because of the Queen's birthday, Egon is released early from prison, which annoys him because a week later a lawyer who he hoped to get information about a new plan should have been transferred to his cell. In order to get back to prison, he deliberately sabotaged a plan that Benny had worked out based on Egon's example.

Egon then comes out of prison with the plan to steal a microfilm from the “Reichsregistratur”, a secret information archive. This microfilm contains the "site plan" of a secret project called Daisyland, which wants to transform the whole of Denmark into one huge holiday park. The engineer Bang-Johansen, who has his office in Copenhagen City Hall, wants to sell the site plan to foreign investors, who will be represented by the so-called Black Baron, before the official start of the project. Egon's plan is to return the microfilm for a large ransom.

Copenhagen City Hall on Rådhuspladsen

The theft of the film works perfectly with the usual diversionary maneuvers, but when it is handed over, Egon has Kjeld's private holiday film with him instead. The stupid pig, Bang-Johansen's henchman, and the Black Baron place Egon in the clock face of the town hall's clock until he either reveals the hiding place of the correct film or is pushed into the depths by the large pointer. By chance he is discovered there by Kjeld and Benny, who save him - they hang together on the small pointer to turn the big one back. The striking mechanism of the clock gets so out of step that the stupid pig and the black baron are knocked out by the counterweights, and the Olsen gang can escape.

Since Benny had previously stolen the suitcase from the safe with which the microfilm was supposed to be paid for, the coup was actually a success. Shortly before the apartment, however, Egon is arrested by the police - an arrest warrant is still pending, which Jensen had issued in order to have a scapegoat. When he arrives at the Presidium, Jensen, who was only able to deliver the microfilm with Kjeld's vacation pictures as the result of the investigation, has just been dishonorably dismissed by phone and now wants to emigrate to Canada to fish there. Egon is released again. In the apartment, however, he only finds Jensen's fishing equipment in his suitcase, while Jensen discovers on his departure what a bulging travel budget he has with him.

Out of anger, Egon throws in the window of a china shop in Copenhagen to be arrested. At the prison, on the occasion of his tenth arrest (or the tenth Olsen gang film), a prison band and the prison director greet him personally.

As a comedic subplot, Kjeld, who was put on a diet by Yvonne, is repeatedly confronted with food while Egon's plan is being carried out. A striking example is his desperate attempt to secretly open the sealed aircraft food.

History of origin

The basic idea, in which a figure hangs on a clock hand, is taken from the silent film Safety Last (German title: Skyscraper of all things! ) With Harold Lloyd from 1923.

For the film, the clock in Copenhagen City Hall was reproduced in an enlarged form on the grounds of Nordisk Film A / S in Valby . The scenes were filmed partly on a vertical dial, but partly also on a horizontal dial. Erik Balling and Henning Bahs wanted to have the hands for this clock made by a blacksmith in Valby. It turned out that his grandfather had forged the hands of the model at Copenhagen City Hall and that the grandson still had the original construction drawings. The faithful copy was therefore not a problem.

German synchronization

The Olsen Gang Rises on the Roof , like all films in the series , was dubbed by DEFA , but was one of three Olsen Gang films that were not shown in theaters in the GDR, but only on television. Egon, Benny and Kjeld were spoken as usual by Karl Heinz Oppel , Peter Dommisch and Erhard Köster , Yvonne for the only time by Micaëla Kreißler .

Several elements of this film fell victim to censorship in the GDR :

  • The title, which literally means “The Olsen Gang goes to war”, had to be changed because those responsible found the word “war” to be offensive.
  • In 1982, the list of voice actors was removed from the German opening and closing credits because Micaëla Kreißler went to Germany.
  • The ten million captured by the Olsen Gang were D-Marks, and this was also completely removed from the German dialogues.
  • The original line “The Reichsregistratur keeps all information about Denmark and the Danes, both ordinary information and secret information that could be of interest to the police, NATO, the EC and friendly foreign powers.” Was allowed because of the naming of NATO and the EC cannot be used in this way. This resulted in the DEFA synchronization: “This is where all information about Denmark and the Danes is stored, important information and completely irrelevant, generally accessible information as well as information that is so secret that nobody knows whether you should even know that you are may not know. "


Remarks

Herlev Hospital; in the film the "Reichsregistratur"
  • The Reichsregistratur is an invention of the scriptwriters. The building shown was actually a hospital in Herlev . The Herlev Hospital , built in 1976, is the tallest building in Denmark with 30 floors and a height of 120 meters.
  • The plan that plays an important role in the film, according to which Denmark is to be converted into a huge holiday area, is called "Operation Daisyland" . "Daisy" was a nickname of the young Queen Margrethe II.
  • Ove Sprogøe's son Henning worked on this film as a production assistant and has an extra role as a bus passenger. He later became an actor himself.
  • The prisoner band at the end of the film was Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband , which recorded the first version of the Olsen Gang theme song in 1968.
  • The town hall clock shown in the film was an enlarged replica. The real clock in Copenhagen City Hall is much smaller.
  • On August 27, 2008 Post Danmark published a stamp in honor of Erik Balling, which shows a portrait of the director and a scene with Yvonne and Egon from this film.
  • The film was in Norway remade under the title Olsenbanden og Dynamite-Harry mot nye høyder (The Olsen Gang and Dynamite Harry to new heights) as the tenth sequel in the film series of the Olsen Gang (Norway) .


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Frank Eberlein: The large lexicon of the Olsen gang , pp. 325–327
  2. ↑ Morten Grunwald: My days in yellow socks, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-374-4 , p. 167
  3. ↑ Morten Grunwald: My days in yellow socks, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-374-4 , p. 151ff.
  4. ↑ Erik Balling's stamp published. olsenbandenfanclub.de, August 27, 2008, accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” , Pages 147 to 149 and pages 8 to 9; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484