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Olsen Gang | |
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![]() Left to right: Kjeld, Benny, Yvonne, Egon. | |
First appearance | The Olsen Gang (1968) |
Last appearance | The Olsen Gang's Last Trick (1998) |
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Type | Fictional crime syndicate |
Location | Denmark |
The Olsen Gang (Danish: Olsen-banden, Norwegian: Olsenbanden) is a Danish comedy film series created by Danish director Erik Balling and special effects expert Henning Bahs about the eponymous fictional criminal gang. The gang's leader is the criminal genius and habitual offender Egon Olsen and his accomplices are Benny and Kjeld (Kjell in Norwegian). The gang members are harmless, extremely rarely target ordinary citizens, and never deliberately use violence.[a] The first film came in 1968; during the next thirty years a total of fourteen films were made.
A Norwegian version of the film series was also made (a total of 14 films from 1969 to 1999), in most cases based directly on the scripts for the Danish films. Later, starting in 1981, Sweden also produced their own version: Jönssonligan.[1]
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