The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Name: The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: 2013
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Robert Gustafsson, Mia Skäringer, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Jens Hultén

Felix Herngren20131h 54mAdventure, Comedy

Why we chose it

Sweden’s answer to Forrest Gump is a hundred years old and loves blowing things up. Allan Karlsson has no opinions at all, yet he has spent his life nudging history by accident, meeting Franco, Stalin and Truman. Robert Gustafsson was aged so convincingly that the makeup was nominated for an Oscar.

Synopsis

It’s Allan Karlsson’s hundredth birthday in Malmköping, where he landed in a care home after blowing up the fox that killed his cat. Rather than turn up to his party, he climbs out of the window and escapes. At the bus station a young man asks him to watch his suitcase, but the bus arrives first, so the suitcase leaves with the centenarian, and it’s full of gang money.