Erik Balling — Director (26)
The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Olsen-banden i Jylland
director: Erik Balling actor: Ove Sprogøe / Morten Grunwald
other title: Olsen-banden i Jylland / Die Olsenbande fährt nach Jütland
The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
The Olsen Gang in a Fix (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Olsen-banden på spanden
director: Erik Balling actor: Ove Sprogøe / Morten Grunwald
other title: Olsen-banden på spanden / Die Olsenbande in der Klemme
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.
The Olsen Gang Long Gone (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Olsen-banden over alle bjerge
director: Erik Balling actor: Ove Sprogøe / Morten Grunwald
other title: Olsen-banden over alle bjerge / Die Olsenbande fliegt über alle Berge
Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values ​​worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion.
In the Middle of the Night (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Midt om natten
director: Erik Balling actor: Kim Larsen / Erik Clausen
other title: Midt om natten / 半夜
Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.
Matador (1978) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB KevGa-NeoDB
Matador
director: Erik Balling / Lise Nørgaard actor: Jørgen Buckhøj / Ghita Nørby
other title: Die Leute von Korsbaek / 垄断
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur.

Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio.

The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
Olsen-banden (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Olsen-banden
director: Erik Balling actor: Ove Sprogøe / Morten Grunwald
other title: 奥森帮 / Die Olsenbande
The first of 14 Olsen Gang 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.