Olsen Gang and Dynamitt-Harry

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Movie
German title The Olsen Gang and Dynamit-Harry (title on festival)
Original title Olsen Gang og Dynamit-Harry
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 1970
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Ove Kant
script Henning Bahs
Erik Balling
Norwegian adaptation: Knut Bohwim and Ove Kant
production Knut Bohwim
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Mattis Mathiesen
cut Leif Erlsboe
occupation

Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry , German festival title: The Olsenbande and Dynamit-Harry , is the second film from the Olsenbande film series (Norway) . The Norwegian crime comedy is a remake of the Danish film Die Olsen Gang in der Klemme from the Olsen Gang film series and had its premiere in Norway on August 10, 1970 .

action

At the Ringnes Brewery , the Olsen Gang first tried honest work on the assembly line of the bottling plant
At the Norges Bank (Norwegian National Bank) the Olsen Gang got a job as cleaning staff. However, after an attack by American gangsters, the police suspect you of having carried out the robbery yourself. Today the bank building is an art museum.
The American gangsters have quartered in the Oslo Grand Hotel , where the Olsen gang takes their loot from them.

The Olsen Gang carried out a bank robbery in the Stabekker Sparkasse (Stabekk Sparebank) precisely according to Egon's plan . Egon goes into the bank with a gun and wants to ask for the cash at the counter. Benny is waiting with his car with the engine running and Kjell is standing there. When Egon goes into the savings bank, however, another bank robber is already at the counter. He is currently having his loot paid out at the bank counter, so that Olsen comes away empty-handed. When the bank robber disappears with the loot, the alarm goes off and Benny and Kjell flee the scene in a panic. Egon is arrested by the arriving police and it turns out that he only had a water spray gun.

After serving his sentence in Oslo State Prison , Egon is picked up again by Benny and Kjell and Basse. But this time Olsen comes out with a young woman who is Egon's social welfare worker Bodil Hansen. To the horror of his gang members, he renounced the crime while he was in prison and only wants to earn money with honest work after his release. Responsible for this is the attractive Bodil, whom Egon promised and whom he is in love with. She gives Egon a job on the assembly line at a beer bottle filling plant in the Ringnes brewery . After initial hesitation from his cronies, Egon was able to convince Kjell and finally Benny of the benefits of honest work, so that all three of them eventually worked in the factory. The Olsen gang and also Kjell's wife Valborg are initially all satisfied with their new situation and happy that they can finally earn their money honestly.

When one day, however, Bodil Hansen unexpectedly shows up at the factory, Egon is so overwhelmed by her appearance that he completely messes up the assembly line process and then Benny and Kjell and all the other employees join this picnic and the three are dismissed without notice. Bodil Hansen is initially disappointed, but can finally find the three of them a job as cleaning staff in the vault of the Norwegian National Bank (Norges Bank). During their work at Norges Bank , they witness a spectacular break-in in which specially secured loot is stolen from a safe (as it turns out later, these are the Norwegian crown jewels).

Since the convicted Olsen gang (apart from which there are no other witnesses) is understandably believed to be the perpetrators, Egon tries to hunt the prey off the real robbers - a gang of American super gangsters - on his own, whereby the gang finally finds its way back to its old form. The gangsters have hidden their loot in a burglar-proof and blast-proof container, disguised as a cello case. As the Olsen gang has since found out, the gang is now in the Grand Hotel in Oslo . The Olsen gang is still trying to get the stolen crown jewels back in order to finally prove their innocence. Egon and Benny smuggle themselves into the Grand Hotel disguised as service staff. Benny lures the gangsters out of their hotel suite with a bogus phone call, while Kjell, the disguised chambermaid, exchanges the cello case for a real (but also stolen) cello case.

A wild chase through the whole of Oslo then begins, in which, in addition to the gangsters, the police are also involved, who are still looking for the Olsen gang because of the alleged robbery. With the help of Dynamite Harry, the Olsen gang tries in vain to open the alleged cello case with explosives. Unfortunately, all attempts by Dynamit-Harry and the Olsen Gang to do this go wrong. However, the gangsters also fail several times to steal the booty from the Olsen gang. After all, even the big man behind, Serafimo Motzarella from Chicago , has to travel to Norway. Bodil Hansen, who more or less noticed the whole thing and still wants to bail out the Olsen gang, ultimately tracks down Serafimo. She joins the gang boss in order to study his personality for her new research project. At the same time, however, she makes Serafimo promise to spare the Olsen gang and to confirm their innocence for the crime of which they are accused. Serafimo deals with the trade; He then lets the Olsen Gang give him the cello case and then agrees to make a deal with the Norwegian government for the surrender of the jewels in return for an "expense allowance".

The Olsen gang is now fully rehabilitated, but Detective Inspector Hermansen has Egon Olsen arrested anyway. Not because of the alleged robbery, but because of many small crimes for which Olsen is said to have been responsible or which happened during the Olsen gang's escape and chase. Egon goes to Botsfengselet again , while Bodil Hansen accompanies Motzarella to the USA .


meaning

The second film in the Norwegian Olsen Gang series is an intermediate link between the first part, which had very little to do with the flair of the later films, and the third, from which the plot concept of the follow-up films is largely present, as in the Danish model of Olsen Gang. Kjell and Valborg are now in a small town district of Oslo, which contributed a lot to the atmosphere of the following Olsen Gang films. The gang members no longer visit brothels, even if they still do not meet in Kjell's apartment, but in Hansen's pub. Valborg is still just one of many supporting characters, the female lead in the film is clearly Bodil Hansen.

Reviews

“Totally crazy crazy comedy - this is pure pleasure, full of speed and tension. But there is reason to fear that only Lieschen Müller will enjoy this mess. In any case, during yesterday's late screening in the Saga Cinema , there was so much laughing and yelling that sometimes you couldn't understand the dialogues of the four Bajazzos. That's why you can predict a nice box office success now. (...) A high point of this nonsense, the most nonsensical increase in nonsense, was delivered by Harald Heide-Steen junior, who turned his dynamite Harry into a total crazy person. It was actually loaded with dynamite. "

- ke Dagbladet , Oslo, August 11, 1970

"The Olsen Gang and Dynamite Harry" is a Norwegian remake of the Danish film "The Olsen Gang in a Clamp" (1969), the second in the series. The Norwegian actors enjoyed stardom in their homeland soon after the premiere. Director Ove Kant made his debut as a feature film director with "The Olsen Gang and Dynamit-Harry". Despite the popular success that his first film had, he was never again commissioned to direct the film. "

- Nordic Film Days Lübeck , November 1997 :

Remarks

  • When Kjell and Benny pick up Egon from prison at the beginning of the film, Kjell is seen again with a stroller. From then on - unlike in the first film - he only ever had one child, namely Basse.
  • Under the title Die Olsenbande and Dynamit-Harry , the film was shown in 1997 at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck . 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!” Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 130.
  2. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , pp. 118–120.
  3. ^ In: Dagbladet , Oslo, August 11, 1970; German translation from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs: “I have a plan!” Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 120.
  4. ↑ a b The Olsen Gang and Dynamite Harry. In: luebeck.de. Nordic Film Days Lübeck , November 1, 1997, accessed on January 23, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , pp. 8–9.