StudioCanal has released the UK trailer for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, based on the Jonas Jonasson novel of the same name.
The film, like the book, explores the life of dynamite expert Allan Karlsson, and the unlikely events following his escape from the old folk’s home on his 100th birthday.
The film marks the feature debut of Swedish TV director Felix Herngren, who directs a cast that includes Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, and David Wiberg.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is out in Ireland on July 4th.
Allan Karlsson is about to celebrate his hundredth birthday, and a birthday party is planned at his retirement home. Allan is alert despite his age, but not so interested in the party. Instead he steps out the window and disappears. He gets hold of a suitcase of drug money and becomes chased by both drug dealers and the police.
Filled with lots of adventures, Allan’s life story is told in parallel to this. He eats dinner with the future President Harry S. Truman, hitchhikes with Winston Churchill, travels on a riverboat with the wife of Mao Zedong and walks across the Himalayas on foot.