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

Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man – let’s call it that for short – chronicles the fanciful escapades of the central centenarian as he and his companions attempt to flee their own dull existences with equal shares in a suitcase full of cash.

After escaping their retirement home and accidentally acquiring said case, our elderly protagonist, Alan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson), and his crew find themselves pursued by a violent but shambolic biker gang. Life on the lam serves to remind Alan of his past misadventures in which, for someone who loves nothing more than blowing things up, he often finds himself in the right place at the right time.

In the tradition of Zelig, Forrest Gump or – more accurately - William Boyd’s Any Human Heart, Alan’s life weaves through significant events of the 20th century, recalling naïve, hilarious and unrelentingly ridiculous encounters with Franco, Stalin and Oppenheimer, among others. [David McGinty]