Pursued by an incompetent motorcycle gang, and variously teaming up with an ageing rogue, an incomplete man and a feisty woman with a pet elephant, Allan follows a trail of unintentional destruction through which the haphazard cataclysms of his past are refracted. Shambling to the nearest bus stop in cork-soled slip-ons, Allan buys a ticket to nowhere, accidentally purloining en route a suitcase full of money. It was also adapted into a film in 2013.It sounds alienatingly unlikable, but with the backing of Disney distribution, Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann became a festive Euro-hit last Christmas, giving The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo a run for its money in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and being dubbed "the Scandinavian Intouchables", a reference to the French blockbuster (retitled Untouchable in the UK) which grossed more than $400m worldwide.īased on the bestselling 2009 debut novel by Jonas Jonasson, the wildly whimsical narrative follows the misadventures of Allan Karlsson (Swedish comedy great Robert Gustafsson) who escapes from an old people's home just in time to miss his own centenary birthday party. But he never seems to realise the importance of the events he plays such decisive roles in.Īuthor Jonasson achieved worldwide success with this comic novel which has been published in more than 30 languages around the world. He has to flee this gang as well as the police who are searching for the missing pensioner, and we learn more about his early life through flashbacks to scenes showing Allan's involvement in the Spanish Civil War and creation of the atom bomb - and that's just for starters.
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