Ole Stephensen Movies
- 1987
In this madcap comedy, Svend Aage (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen) and Niels Peder (Ole Stephensen) team up to help a damsel in distress and an impoverished count. It seems that the count has a big farm or, in the more elegant prose befitting a nobleman, one might call it an "agricultural estate." A sleazy alliance of a chemical plant and a supermarket want to get the estate from the count for the cost of his outstanding debts. However, the count has one ace in the hole: a red cow that moos to indicate which horse to bet on in the Sunday races. Sunday is also when the count's debts come due. Svend is a footloose horse-trading type, and Niels is simply eager (usually to spend time with pretty women), but together they take on the challenge of extricating the count from his predicament. Along the way, they borrow routines from the Marx Brothers, from Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and a host of others. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Stephensen, Axel Ströbye, (more)
- 1986
The polite Walter (Ole Stephensen) and his loud friend (in both personality and fashion) Carlo (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen) first appeared together in Walter & Carlo: Op På Fars Hat (1985), an alarmingly popular piece of old-fashioned low comedy. Few critics clamored for a sequel -- Walter and Carlo were no Olsen Gang -- but it came anyway. This time, however, the audience stayed away in droves, but that didn't deter the filmmakers, who issued a third film, Walter & Carlo i Amerika, which crash landed with an even larger thud in 1989. The story of Yes, Det Er Far was ostensibly about senior citizens forced by high taxation to smuggle cheap coffee on the ferries from Sweden, but in reality it was merely an excuse for Saturday Night Live-ish television personalities Ole Stephensen (a former reporter, believe it or not) and Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen to do their patented schtick. It seemed a good idea at the time -- so much so that the then Danish prime minister, Poul Schlüter, made a cameo appearance as himself. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen, Kirsten Rolffes, (more)
- 1985
At a pace faster than a speeding bullet or flying cream pie, this farce is about two men -- hunk Walter (Ole Stephensen) of the dim bulb, and slapstick shoe repairman Carlo (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen). Straight out of Danish television, the two characters are already stereotyped as they set off through exotic Spain on a package tour. Instead of the usual treks through museums, historic sites, and restaurants, there are encounters with diamond smugglers, thugs, and the requisite pretty women. Between Carlo's jabber and Walter's befuddled views, the duo are hard-pressed to woo and win. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Stephensen, Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen, (more)
