Olsen gangs and Dynamitt-Harry på sporet

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Movie
German title Olsen Gang and Dynamite Harry on the tracks (title on festival)
Original title Olsen gangs and Dynamitt-Harry på sporet
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 1977
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Knut Bohwim
script Henning Bahs
Erik Balling
Per A. Anonsen
Andreas This
production Per A. Anonsen
music Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
camera Knut Gløersen
cut Per A. Anonsen
occupation

Olsen Gang & Dynamitt-Harry på sporet ; German festival title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamit-Harry on the Tracks , is the eighth film from 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 sets the course " from the Olsen Gang film series and had its premiere in Norway on October 14, 1977 .

action

After the successful last coup, Egon, Benny, Kjell and Valborg enjoy life as millionaires in their villa on Mallorca . Little did they know that “the stupid pig” (Biffen) followed them to Spain . He manages to steal Egon's suitcase with all his fortune. The luxury stay of the Olsen Gang is suddenly interrupted. Egon tries with Benny and Kjell to get the suitcase back from the vault of the multinational, fraudulent company "Multi-Scan". He realizes too late that a trap has been set for him. He is arrested while Benny and Kjell are able to escape in time. Egon is brought back to Norway to Botsfengselet .

After the end of his imprisonment - he was released two months early because of his good conduct - Egon inquired at the Oslo travel agency Tjærborg when or whether his companions had returned and learns that they have long since started their return from Spain to Norway. In the vicinity of Kjell's apartment, he initially only runs into “Dynamit-Harry”, who, as demolition expert, has the task of removing desolate buildings from their neighborhood. Harry gives Egon a tip so that he can find them in the center of Oslo. Kjell and Benny are again quite disinterested in his new plan. Benny now earns some money as a street vendor for joke items, e.g. a laugh spray. Kjell tries as a supposedly handicapped organ grinder. Valborg doesn't want to tolerate any more “criminals” in her house. Egon also learns that Basse, the son of Kjell and Valborg, does not live in the house.

With a "borrowed" Skd 206 rail tractor , the gang stole a Franz Jäger safe wagon equipped with gold bars .

Over time, Egon succeeds in getting his comrades excited about the plan. He found out that "Multi-Scan" invested the money in gold bars and wanted to bring them by train from Oslo via Copenhagen-Hamburg to Switzerland in a special safe wagon from the Franz Jäger company . By means of a small coup, the Olsen Gang obtained some start-up capital from the slot machine company "Norsk Lykketotto A / S". The Olsen Gang then stole a small Skd 206 rail tractor and, disguised as railroad workers, were able to drive the safe wagon from the headquarters of Multi-Scan to a port area on the outskirts of Oslo. Here they want to load the gold bars onto a truck and transport them away. The truck is a bit decrepit, however, when Kjell tries to jump onto the loading area shortly before a police patrol arrives, and it collapses. The Olsen Gang fled, but had to leave the gold behind. In the meantime Valborg is trying to regain the property stolen in Mallorca: She reports to the police and wages a private war with Detective Inspector Hermansen. This exasperated the case to his assistant, Holm. However, he is happy because he finally has his own case.

After Egon, Benny and Kjell return to Valborg in Kjell's apartment, an argument breaks out. Egon returns to the marshalling yard alone to look for the safe wagon. However, he is caught by the "stupid pig", knocked out and packed in a box that is to be sent to Australia . Benny and Kjell find him and free him. Egon dares another attempt with dynamite Harry, who this time is supposed to pretend to be an employee of the Norwegian State Railways in a signal box. The vault was coupled to a passenger train to Switzerland by the police. The Olsen Gang tries to uncouple the safe wagon from the train with their shunting locomotive, but difficulties arise again: the Oslo police excursion car was attached to the same train, with their opponents Hermansen and Holm of all things. The Olsen gang depends on them and sends the police onto a dead track that ends in the grounds of the Frydenlund brewery in Oslo . The other problem is more serious: On the same day the summer timetable comes into effect, so that Egon's knowledge of the Norwegian State Railways service timetable , which he learned by heart in prison, becomes worthless. As creative as Egon is, he causes a short circuit in the switch box of the signal box, which switches all signals to red and forces the trains to stop. As a supposedly new employee, Dynamit-Harry repairs the damage to the switch box and then has to drive a diesel locomotive, although he has no idea about it. The Olsen Gang and Dynamit-Harry are wreaking havoc on the NSB rail network. The stupid pig finally discovers the Olsen gang with their Franz Jäger vault at a traffic light and follows them through the whole of Oslo with a “multi-scan” van.

Egon, Benny and Kjell manage to escape after a wild chase. The stupid pig's vehicle is picked up by Dynamite Harry's haphazard diesel locomotive at an intersection and destroyed. Police join in who chased the stupid pig for his frenzy. The Olsen gang then panicked and abandoned their locomotive and gold bars and escaped. It appears to have lost its prey again. The stupid pig is arrested as a traffic hooligan and thief of the safe wagon. Meanwhile, Valborg is at the police station to inquire about her stolen gold. Through her description, she identifies the stupid pig as the thief of her property in Mallorca. With her naive manner, Valborg convinces the police to hand over the gold bars. They get safely to their Danish business partner on Lysaker . In return, Egon received numerous shares from the Dane , which made him chairman of the board of his own joint stock company, Shipping & Oil LTD. Benny and Kjell become vice directors in this company.

So everything could have ended to the satisfaction of the Olsen gang if a gentleman from the tax office hadn't appeared one day. This does not find the deficit of 90 million kroner, for which Egon acquired the majority share, posted as income anywhere. As a penalty he has to pay 270 million Norwegian kroner and 35 ore to offset all fees and back payments . Since Egon cannot pay this sum, he is arrested again for tax evasion.

Reviews

“Quite simple-minded - the simple comedy celebrates new triumphs. Dialogues like situations are more of the simple-minded kind. the actors are encouraged by the director to outrage quite colossally . In the trio it is again Carsten Byhring who excels - his little wizened Kjell shows once again this vulnerability that has developed the actors into something very personal in this film. The other two gang members - Arver Opsahl, Sverre Holm - play, as usual, routinely and naturally. Aud Schønemann as Valborg and Sverre Wilberg as policeman and eternal enemy of the gang shows more empathy - if we can speak of such fine quality in a film like this. "

- B. Gr. (Bjørn Granum), in Arbeiderbladet , Oslo, October 15, 1977

"Nice pastime - whenever the critics talk about a lack of ambition, simple comedy and minimal pleasure, the film industry looks hurt and speaks of snobbery, lack of humor and a lack of popular appeal, etc. so we know where we stand each other. But the great mass of moviegoers don't give a damn about it and flock to the Olsen Gang, because they offer a nice pastime. (...) because this is also the case this 8th time. that those who like the Olsen Gang know exactly where they're going, just like those who don't know how to escape. So that was today's advice for consumers. "

- TE (Thor Ellingsen), in Dagbladet , Oslo, October 15, 1977

Trivia

  • The police chief can only be seen in one scene in which he is wearing a carnival mask. Behind this is the actor Wilfred Breistrand , who played the police chief in the film Olsen-banden møter kongen og knekten .
  • This is the first film by the Norwegian Olsen Gang, where Øivind Blunck appears in the role of Hermansen's assistant Holm, which he also played in subsequent sequels.
  • Since the Norwegian production company of the Norwegian Olsen Gang films "Teamfilm A / S" initially had concerns about the continuation of the series, the remake of the Danish film "The Olsen Gang sets the course" was not made up for two years later. The Danish original premiered in September 1975, while this remake was not made until October 1977.
  • Originally - according to the Danish script - Pål Johannessen was supposed to play as Basse Jensen (son of Kjell and Valborg). But there were the same problems here as with its Danish counterpart Børge Jensen (played by Jes Holtsø ) in the original film adaptations. Even in adolescence, he no longer wanted to play his role. In Norway, the gap was filled with the role of Dynamit-Harry (played by Harald Heide-Steen junior ), who had already made several appearances with the Norwegian Olsens.
  • From the Danish original Die Olsenbande sets the course , some scenes that act in Spain at the beginning of the film and some small excerpts - after everything has come to a standstill on the rails - were taken over. In contrast, the other scenes in Spain were shot again with the Norwegian gang in the same villa "Casa Olsen" as the Danish Olsen gang. Furthermore, the two Spanish policemen (who arrest Egon) and the Spanish waiter from the villa "Casa Olsen" play in the Danish and Norwegian film versions.
  • The filming locations were Oslo, the Costa del Sol in Spain and Málaga in Andalusia . The first Danish filming "The Olsen Gang sets the course" as well as the Norwegian remake "Olsen Gang & Dynamit-Harry auf dem Gleisen" was shot at the same Spanish location, although both gangs are actually set to Mallorca .
  • The Danish actor Ove Verner Hansen appears for the first time in the Norwegian Olsen Gang in the role of Biffen (Danish: Bøffen, German: Dummes Schwein ), which he continued to perform in both versions of the Olsen Gang.
  • For use in the film on the tracks of the Norwegian State Railways , a separate wagon was converted into the Franz Jäger Berlin safe wagon.
  • The wooden gold bar boxes from the Franz Jäger vault with the designation Art & Kunst were also used in the original Danish film adaptation of the Olsen Gang, The Olsen Gang set the course . The same wooden boxes reappear in the eleventh Norwegian Olsen film Olsen gangs gir seg aldri! in a room in the Tower of London , from which Egon and Benny steal a red suitcase.

Remarks

  • Under the title The Olsen Gang and Dynamit-Harry on the Tracks , the film was presented 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.

literature

  • Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” The Olsen gang Slapstick comedy between slapstick and subversion. Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , pp. 140-142
  • Frank Eberlein, Frank-Burkhard Habel: The Olsen Gang. The big book for fans. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, expanded new edition 2000. ISBN 3896020560
  • Frank Eberlein : The large lexicon of the Olsen Gang. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3896023616 , p. 294

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!” , Page 140; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484
  2. ↑ Description of Skd 206. Tekniske data. In: leopardmotor.com. Retrieved January 5, 2014 (Norwegian).
  3. ^ In: Arbeiderbladet , Oslo, October 15, 1977; German translation from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs; “I have a plan!” ; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 142
  4. ^ In: Dagbladet , Oslo, October 15, 1977; German translation from: Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs; “I have a plan!” ; Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 , p. 142
  5. ↑ Frank Eberlein , Frank-Burkhard Habel: The Olsen Gang. The big book for fans. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, expanded new edition 2000. ISBN 3896020560
  6. ↑ Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs : “I have a plan!”. Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3924214484 ; Pp. 8-9