The Olsen Gang sets the course

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang sets the course
Original title Olsen bands på sporet
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1975
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Erik Balling
script Henning Bahs ,
Erik Balling
production Bo Christensen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Claus Loof
cut Ole Steen Nielsen
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The (presumably) last prank of the Olsen Gang

Successor  →
The Olsen Gang sees red

The Olsen Gang sets the course is a Danish crime comedy from 1975. It is the seventh film with the Olsen Gang .

action

In the film, the signal box "Det gule palæ" served as the workplace of Gotfredsen and Brodersen, who took Børge as a supposed apprentice.
Danish State Railways trains in front of the Carlsberg Brewery building - this is where the Copenhagen police excursion ends in the film.
The switcher of the type tractor 57 , which was used in the film of the Olsenbande, is now in Danmarks Jernbanemuseum .

After the successful last coup, Egon, Benny, Kjeld, Yvonne and Børge enjoy life as millionaires in their villa on Mallorca. Little did they know that the stupid pig followed them to Spain. He manages to steal Egon's suitcase with all his fortune. Egon then tries to get the suitcase back from the safe in the Spanish branch of the Multi-Scan company. He realizes too late that a trap has been set for him. He is arrested and taken back to Denmark.

After the end of his imprisonment - he was released two months earlier for good conduct - he was not picked up from prison by Kjeld and Benny as usual. In Kjeld's apartment, the two show each other dismissive, because Benny now earns some money as a street vendor, Kjeld as an organ grinder. Since Børge has left school and he has been promised a well-paid training position, Yvonne does not want to tolerate any more criminals in her house. She reported to the police the theft of around 90 to 95 million (she cannot tell the exact amount) by the stupid pig and annoys the officials because she urgently needs the money to buy a villa in a better residential area in Copenhagen, so that Børge has better chances of finding the apprenticeship position it is planning.

Nevertheless, after a while, Egon manages to inspire his two comrades with his plan. He found out that the Multi-Scan company has invested the money in gold bars and wants to take them to Zurich in a special safe wagon from the Franz Jäger company by train. After the Olsen Gang has worried 10,000 crowns in 25-öre coins in a slot machine operators, they kidnapped a small shunting engine type DSB tractor 56/57 and, disguised as a railway worker, out promoting the safe carriage of the headquarters of Multi-Scan and the Drive to the port area to load the gold bars onto a truck. None of the switches it sets are returned to their original position after passing. However, it turns out that the very cheap truck Benny got for a number of 25 Öre coins is already very decrepit, so that the car, as Kjeld, is completely exhausted from carrying the heavy gold boxes, shortly before the arrival of a police patrol still quickly jumps onto the loading area, collapses. So the Olsen gang has to flee and leave the gold behind, which the railway dutifully loads back into the wagon.

In Kjeld's apartment, Yvonne has to treat the complaining Benny and Kjeld, because gold boxes fell on their feet during the hectic reloading operation. There is a general dispute between Egon and the others, whereupon Egon returns to the marshalling yard alone. When the police appear at the house shortly afterwards, Benny and Kjeld escape, hobbling and, as usual, through the back door. The executive only wants to talk to Yvonne about the stolen millions. Egon finds the safe wagon. However, he is caught by the stupid pig and knocked unconscious. Benny and Kjeld have followed Egon, see how the stupid pig packs him in a box and takes him to a warehouse, from which it should be sent to Australia the next day. A security guard complains about sloppiness in the camp and makes a meticulous note of everything, while his service dog urinates on the shipping crate in which Egon is locked. Benny and Kjeld find Egon and free him in time.

Egon makes a second attempt to hijack the wagon. This time, Børge is supposed to manipulate the control of the railway signaling systems on a switch box and, when asked, pretend to be the state railway's new apprentice. When Børge appears, he is not recognized at first, because at Egon's persuasion he had his hair cut short at Yvonne's request. Benny laughs after another at Børge's hairstyle.

The safe car found by the police was coupled to a scheduled passenger train and is to be taken to Multi-Scan in Zurich. The stupid pig watches the train depart with satisfaction. Børge cannot fulfill his task as planned because, while he is waiting at the switch box, he is invited to the signal box and instructed as a supposedly new apprentice. Only at the last moment can he turn the signal for the train to red unnoticed, thereby clearing the way for the Olsen gang. With its shunting locomotive, this uncouples the safe wagon from the passenger train, but this does not happen without any problems. The Copenhagen police's excursion car was added to the same train and is now located between the shunting locomotive and the safe car. In an unscheduled operation, the Olsen gang maneuvers him onto a stump track and pushes him off: The wagon with the policemen singing early in the morning rolls unchecked into a hall of the Carlsberg brewery . In addition, there is a far more serious problem: On the day of the Olsen Gang Action, the summer timetable comes into effect, so that Egon's knowledge of the state railway's internal service timetable , which he learned by heart in prison, suddenly becomes worthless.

He only noticed the timetable change after a few near-collisions that shouldn't have happened according to plan. Remorseful about this mistake, Egon has no choice but to cause a short circuit in the signal switch box, through which all signals in the signal box area fall into the stop position. In this way, the Olsen Gang brings all train traffic to a standstill and can even leave the station unmolested.

At a railroad crossing, however, the stupid pig spotted the passing safe wagon and drove after it, but was soon followed by the police himself for reckless driving. There is a showdown at the vault, the Olsen gang can flee, the stupid pig is arrested, and the police happily hand over the gold to Yvonne, who has reported the theft. The gold bars are finally delivered safely to the Norwegian client on Amager , for which Egon receives the majority of the company's shares and becomes chairman of the supervisory board. Benny and Kjeld become vice directors, Børge - after he was the only one able to eliminate the total disturbance of the signals - is employed as an apprentice at the state railway.

But one day a gentleman from the tax office appears in Egon's office: The 90 million for which Egon bought the shares are nowhere booked as income. Since Egon cannot pay the tax and the fine, he has no choice but to go behind bars.

German synchronizations

This film was shown in theaters in the GDR before the previous film "The (presumably) last prank of the Olsen gang" was shown on television (this was not shown in GDR theaters). The main roles were cast by the same voice actors in both films: Karl Heinz Oppel as Egon, Peter Dommisch as Benny, Erhard Köster as Kjeld, Helga Hahnemann as Yvonne and Michael Pan as Børge. Brodersen and Gotfredsen were spoken by Hans-Joachim Hanisch and Klaus Mertens , Dietmar Richter-Reinick was the German voice of Detective Inspector Jensen for the first time. Karl Heinz Oppel's wife Rosemarie had a small dubbing role as Egon's secretary at the end of the film.

In West Germany, the synchronization of ZDF appeared in 1989 under the title On the rails the devil is loose .

Remarks

The Olsenbanden signal box at its new location in the Gedser Railway Museum (May 2017, not quite finished)
  • The "Aktiengesellschaft November 29, 1974" mentioned in the film bears its name after the 50th birthday of director Erik Balling.
  • The police chief can only be seen in one scene in which he is wearing a carnival mask. Behind this is the actor Poul Reichhardt , who played the police chief in the first two films. In the German dubbed version, Detective Inspector Jensen incorrectly addresses him several times with "Jansen".
  • According to Yvonne's statement, the better people live "in Gentofte , on the right side of the Lyngbyweg" . Erik Balling lived there.
  • In 1977, Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry på sporet, a Norwegian remake was made.
  • Some of the scenes in which the Olsen Gang shunted the freight locomotive are highlighted with the Britta polka by the Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874).
  • The signal box "Det gule Palæ" ("The Yellow Palace") in Copenhagen, where Børge unexpectedly became a railway apprentice, was to be demolished in 2014 in order to build a new one. After protests, the two Olsen Gang fan clubs in Germany and Denmark were able to delay the demolition and take over the old building. It was transported to Gedser in September 2016 with the help of donations and installed in the Gedser depot near the port.
  • Brodersen stated that the aim of the police outing in the special wagon was a visit to Roskilde Cathedral ; Nevertheless, the occupants of the car were already so tipsy in the early morning that they did not notice how they were literally being scrapped by the Olsen gang.

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  1. ↑ The complete film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeBuhBX7C4
  2. ↑ http://www.olsenbandenfanclub.de/news/2014-10-14_stellwerk_det-gule-palae.php
  3. ↑ http://jyllands-posten.dk/kultur/ECE7960564/Olsen-Banden-fans-Skiiiide-godt-BaneDanmark/