故事发生在十九世纪末北欧，混乱的局势衰颓的经济令人民们陷入了民不聊生的境地。农民拉斯卡森（马克斯·冯·西多 Max von Sydow 饰）带着儿子佩尔（贝利·赫维内加拉德 Pelle Hvenegaard 饰）来到丹麦，希望能够在这里依靠自己的双手挣得更体面的生活。
然而，现实却远不如想象中那么美好，父子两人好不容易在农庄里找到了一份清理马厩的工作，无处可去的两人只能和马只一起睡在茅草堆上，白日里还要受到雇主的责难和剥削，生活苦不堪言。长工埃里克（比约恩·格拉纳特 Björn Granath 饰）积极的领导工人们同压迫他们的管家作斗争，埃里克的自由精神深深鼓舞了佩尔，使他决定离开庄园，开拓新的天地。

一部于 1978 年至 1982 年间制作并播出的丹麦电视剧。故事发生在 1929 年至 1947 年间虚构的丹麦小镇科尔斯拜克。它讲述了来自不同社会阶层的一系列人物的生活，特别关注家庭之间的竞争两位商人的故事：银行家汉斯·克里斯蒂安·瓦纳斯 (Hans Christian Varnæs)，一位在当地颇有名望的人；以及社会攀登者麦兹 (安徒生)·斯克杰恩，他在剧集开场时来到小镇。

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.

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.

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.

Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.