Poul Bundgaard

A deep dive into the production, impact and legacy of one of the most celebrated and beloved danish film franchises of all time, The Olsen Gang.

The Olsen Gang is old and in wheelchairs, but the ich is still intact.

3 Danish elves/nisser in Alaska fly to Jutland to get a key at an old nisse cave near a potato farm. Landing, the biplane propeller breaks and a new is needed. They speak half Danish half English. A stranger comes. (imdb)

Walter's a handsome airline steward who catches the eye of Inge, winner of Malaga's Miss Moonlight contest. Carlo is a motor-mouthed goof who has a "heel bar" (a combination shoe shop and tavern); his companion, Elly, is shooting a video of him... (imdb)

A mortuary worker uncovers the identity of a serial killer after finding one of his victims in the mortuary's coffins. However, instead of turning him over to the police, he blackmails him. Complications ensue.

This is the last of the two-part finale of the Olsen Banden series (apart from the 1998 revival). Egon comes up with one brilliant plan after another to get the red suitcase in an attempt to assure world peace (and get the millions). This takes Egon and the gang to Paris, where they raise havoc at Maxim's by replacing the Sauce Imperial with traditional Danish gravy. They return to Denmark just in time for Keld and Yvonne's silver wedding anniversary. (Bo Brandt)

As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid. (E.C. Hermsdorf)

After his anual stay at Vridlose State Prison, Egon Olsen is back with a new plan. This includes braking into EU headquarters in Bruxelles, Belgium and even kidnapping a tank! (E.C. Hermsdorf)

A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make. (imdb)

For once Egon is released from prison without a plan. Luckily Benny has a plan which Egon messes up in order to get thrown back in jail. This lets him get the information he needs for his next brilliant plan. The gang steal the plans for Daisy-Land, a plot to turn Denmark into a recreational area for the rest of Europe.

Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates of Yvonne's cousin Georg from America. He is not just some old-fashioned strongbox thief that can't remember like Egon, but a young hip IT criminal, that thinks that everyone else is inferior.

A blend of criminals and confusion comedy around the razor-sharp pursuit of a stolen diamond, wrapped in a cake.

Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.

The Olsen Gang has a plan of stealing a big load of gold bars, there is just one problem. Its on a train...

Erik Martin returns home from America to manage the declining family farm Vingaarden. Meanwhile, the local corrupt mayor has his own mischievous plans for the farm.

The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan. (E.C. Hermsdorf)

When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster. (E.C. Hermsdorf)

After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up. The gang once again is in trouble.

The gang from Christianshavn are up against demolition of their house.

Once again Egon Olsen has a plan. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money in one of their commando bunkers in Jutland, when they were defeated in 1945. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds family. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planned.

A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. To earn money for his tuition, he takes a job as headmaster of a small girls' school. There his weakness for beautiful women is put to the test when he is pursued by a bevy of sexy coeds.

A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent. (E.C. Hermsdorf)

Story tells how everybody at Nokken, an authentic Copenhagen Rural district next to the sea and the city dump, help to create a happy home for the children.

The first of 13 Olsenbanden films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang. (E.C. Hermsdorf)

A young woman makes her way in the world in the late 1960s. (imdb)

Martha is a very old and very rusty freight steamer, sailing in the Mediterranean, almost forgotten by the danish shipping line. The crew takes advantage of this, leading a very comfortable and luxurious life on board. Not without financial problems though. The ship's owner is a very old school and disciplined person and certainly not satisfied with the state of the ship and the crew. But the crew shows their worth when they have to fight for the survival of their beloved old steamer.

Businessman Allan Thorsen is tired of his wife, so he tries to shove her into the arms of another man. Of course it doesn't goes as planned.

Dr. Falke takes revenge on his friend Gabriel, because this for a carnival has let him lie lonely back in a park, disguised as bats, he saw the morning turns into laughter for good citizenship. Falke grabs the opportunity to revenge as Gabriel, have placed themselves in a boring situation being sentenced to 10 days in jail for irreverent mention of a royal person.

The whole town knows the Deputy Tvebo as an angry and boring person. He is mad at his high school students, the lovely Ella and the gentle Hans Christian, but neither his colleagues are passing by. He is no less at home, where his sweet, loving wife, Sif, in vain tries to make him comfortable. But when Tvebo comes out of his street door one day he is struck by a roofing stone. But Soya's roof is not an ordinary roof tile: where it hits something unexpected!

Freddy Hansen (Morten Grunwald), a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy... (imdb)

The action takes place in Vienna in 1826. We meet the composer Franz Schubert and some of his artist friends, including his namesake and faithful friend of many years, the frivolous baron Franz von Schober. The friends, who represent poetry, music and painting, live a dissolute bohemian life that stands in stark contrast to the Vienna Citizens nice life in this period, known as Biedermeier. The artists and the bourgeoisie meet, both parties need each other, and it becomes both a double wedding

The office lady Bella, the student Poul and the hardware store assistant Kjeld meet in great desperation. Lonely and dejected by life, they have each tried to put an end to it. They therefore decide to keep together and each other up - and maybe their luck is about to turn when they meet a strange stranger with a tow truck.

Birdwatcher Professor Petersen goes on a summer trip to a remote rocky island. The uninhabited island is home to birds, disturbing scantily clad young girls and a gang of bootleggers. Pat Patachon reluctantly toil for the smugglers, who take Professor Petersen prisoner. The two friends are assigned to guard the suspected spy Petersen, but soon escape together with their new pal.