Olsen gangs for full music

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang in full swing (title on festival)
Original title Olsen gangs for full music
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 1976
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Knut Bohwim
script Henning Bahs
Erik Balling
Oskar Steingrimsen
production Svein Toreg
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Mattis Mathiesen
cut Per A. Anonsen
occupation

Olsenbanden for full music ; German festival title: The Olsen Gang in Full Speed is the seventh film in the Olsen Gang (Norway) film series . The Norwegian crime comedy is a film by Knut Bohwim and a remake of the Danish film The Olsen Gang sees red from the Olsen Gang film series and had its premiere in Norway on December 26, 1976 .

action

The Danish Vallø Castle is the outside backdrop for the baron's residence in the Norwegian and Danish versions of the Olsen Gang film
In the National Theater in Oslo, the Olsen Gang pulls off their daring coup
Basse and Gry get married in the church in Kampen

Egon is released from Oslo prison and picked up by Benny and Kjell. He learns that every nest egg is needed now, as Kjell's family has once again money worries because their son Basse's girlfriend is pregnant and he is supposed to marry her because of that. This time Egon wants to work with Benny and Kjell on behalf of a so-called man of honor, a prominent Norwegian baron. Through his cell neighbor, a lawyer, he made contact with Baron Løvenvold, who also belongs to one of the oldest and most respected Norwegian aristocratic houses. However, he has accumulated large debts through several risky speculative transactions and therefore wants to sell a valuable Chinese vase from the Ming dynasty from the family property to a Danish financial broker and businessman and also collect the insurance value for it. Since the baron's family is not allowed to find out about this illegal business, Egon is supposed to fake a break-in and make the vase disappear.

The vase is located in the baron's Oslo city palace and is kept there in a special safe, which was the masterpiece of the German safe maker Frantz Jäger from Berlin from 1781. The Olsen Gang managed to remove the vase from the baron's historic safe without any major problems. At the handover, however, Egon is once again deprived of his earned share. The servant Fritz simply drops the vase at the agreed location and disappears. At the same time, the police come up with a howling siren, whereupon Benny and Kjell immediately flee in a panic. Egon Olsen is arrested as the alleged thief of the vase and has to go back to Botsfengselet . It later emerges that Egon had just stolen a cheap Hong Kong copy of the precious Ming vase.

In the meantime, Benny and Kjell try to break into a grocer's shop to open a safe with a cutting torch. Benny's carelessness with the cutting torch causes a fire in the store, which triggers the sprinkler system. In the end, Benny and Kjell come home like watered poodles and without prey. Valborg is now really annoyed by the two failures, but also very worried about the future of the young bride and groom. She therefore sets out to get Egon released from prison through official channels. Valborg finally reaches her goal with a prison psychologist who ultimately releases Egon under conditions, but makes Valborg his guardian.

Olsen seeks revenge and lets Kjell and Benny know about his plan. In order to get into the baron's castle, they pretend to be the cooks of their alleged company, Olsen-Catering, supposedly to help organize the baron's big party. In this way they gain access to the baron's castle, where the unofficial sale of the Ming vase for 1.5 million crowns is to take place. Egon reaches the baron's safe via an old underground secret passage. Egon's goal is to exchange the real vase for a worthless copy and then sell it. At first the plan seems to be successful, but Egon finds himself in a trap in a castle dungeon while trying to escape with the vase. Olsen is walled up alive in a crypt by Fritz, the baron's bodyguard. Only at the last second can Olsen be saved by Benny and Kjell.

Despite this defeat, Egon immediately has a new plan ready. After handing over the vase, the baron and his Danish guest, Herr von Mengel, want to attend a performance of a guest performance by Friedrich Kuhlaus Elverhøj in the National Theater in Oslo. While the overture is being played, the Olsen Gang can use drills, crowbars and explosives to clear their way into the auditorium to the rhythm of the music, through the individual lounges of the theater staff, all of which are separated by stable walls, where they can open the vase and can take the red suitcase with the 1,500,000 crowns from their guards unnoticed.

In the end, Basse marries his fiancée Gry, who is soon expecting a child, in the Kampen church in their Oslo area . The Olsen Gang also attended this wedding. Then Egon drives to the police with the young bride and groom and the real Ming vase , as a reward is offered for the valuable piece. However, Gry accidentally drops the vase at Police Headquarters, so it is irretrievably lost. In addition, unnoticed, she manages to swap the suitcase for her honeymoon with Egon's suitcase. So while the young bride and groom set off for Mallorca with a lot of travel money, Egon has no choice but to return to prison voluntarily to work out a new plan. In the end, contrary to expectations, Detective Inspector Hermansen was awarded the Order of St. Olav .

History of origin

Actually, the seventh Olsen film in Norway would have been a remake of the screenplay of The Olsen Gang sets the course . This film was initially skipped and a remake of the eighth Danish Olsen Gang film was made for it - The Olsen Gang sees red . That is why both films were produced here almost at the same time and both gangs used the same film sets almost in parallel. In addition to the shared exterior scenery of Vallø Castle, this also included the interior scenery, some of which were set up in Valby's Nordisk Film Studio . This applies in particular to the castle cellar and the scenes within the theater. The concert recordings were in the Royal Theater of Copenhagen turned and taken for the Danish and the Norwegian Olsen tape film. The overture to Elverhøj for the famous scene in the theater was chosen rather by chance. The Danish 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 play one after the other on the radio, I had it. We were able to do the scenes in the Royal Theater during the Elverhøj overture ”.

This idea probably originally goes back to the film adaptations of The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alfred Hitchcock from 1934 and 1956.

Reviews

“One of the better films - This film is probably one of the better ones in the series. The direction sometimes shows a touch of life, the camera is not rooted in the ground all the time, and there are some refreshing acting performances to see (Helge Reiss, Sverre Wilberg). "

- B. Gr. (Bjørn Granum), in Arbeiderbladet , Oslo, December 27, 1977

“One of the better farces - but in Danish - As so often before, one can safely say that fans of elegant comedies would do well to stay away from the regular channels of the Olsen Gang. The simple and easily comprehensible comedy of the farce is still used here. It is also justified, but under the same conditions: it must be well done. In this film about the Olsen Gang it is all too clear that it is the Norwegian copy of an original Danish work. To put it nicely. Undeniably, the film could have been made in an inventive way. Because there are quite a few stressful situations and stiffly photographed scenes. But nonetheless: This time Knut Bohwim delivered one of the better farces in this inexhaustible series. "

- GG, in Aftenposten , Oslo, December 27, 1976

Remarks

  • An extra song was created for the Norwegian Olsen gang film, which was later also used musically. The Norwegian Olsen Gang members sing while playing the Olsen Gang theme song by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre here at the beginning and end as well as during Egon's arrest in between in the film.
  • The film was presented in 1997 at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck under the title The Olsen Gang in Full Speed . The film has since been released on VHS , DVD and Blu-Ray . A German-language publication does not yet exist for this film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” Page 137; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 .
  2. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” , Pages 137 to 139; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 .
  3. ↑ John Lindskog: Skide godt, Egon! 30 år med Olsen tied. P.56.
  4. ↑ In: Arbeiderbladet , Oslo, December 27, 1976; German translation from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs; “I have a plan!” ; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 139
  5. ^ In: Aftenposten , Oslo, December 27, 1976; German translation from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs; “I have a plan!” ; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 139
  6. ^ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 ; Pp. 8-9