Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared)
Autumn 2014 Features series
Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 4:00pm
Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 7:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Felix Herngren
Screenplay by Felix Herngren and Hans Ingemansson
Based on the book by Jonas Jonasson and
Starring Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, and David Wiberg
Rated NR ·
1h 54m
Sweden / Croatia
Swedish, German, English, Spanish, French, and Russian
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared)
Based on the international best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, and a huge box-office success in its native Sweden, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared follows the unlikely story of a centenarian who decides it is not too late to start over.
Desperate to avoid his 100th birthday party, Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) defenestrates from his room at a nursing home and heads to the nearest bus station, intending to travel as far as his pocket money will take him. But a spur-of-the-moment decision to steal a suitcase from a fellow passenger launches Allan on a strange and unforeseen journey involving, among other things, some nasty criminals, a very large pile of cash, and an elephant named Sonya.
Gustafsson, one of Sweden’s most popular comedians, fully inhabits the role of the Zelig-like Allan, whose present-day escapades and colourful and complex biography—which includes unwitting entanglements in some of the major events of the twentieth century, including the Spanish Civil War and the Manhattan Project—present a new and charmingly off-kilter version of world history. Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is an engaging tale of a life lived to the fullest.
“[Director] Felix Herngren keeps things moving pretty seamlessly between the past and present, has a good eye for the madcap, and maintains a constant breezy mood.” (Demetrios Matheou, Screen Daily)