The Olsen Gang realizes that cash is obsolete with the current inflation rate, and plans a coup for property and bonds. They make a fake company and tries to buy Oslo's biggest shopping mall, Steen and Strøm.
Acting
Arve Opsahl's deadpan Egon is perfection.
Production
1981 Oslo is a time capsule of beige.

Director
Knut Bohwim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the second-to-last Olsen Gang film; Norwegian audiences had grown up with these characters since 1969.
The inflation premise was ripped from headlines — Norway's 1980s economy made property speculation genuinely topical satire.
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