The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared (film)
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| German title | The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared |
| Original title | Hundraåringen which is small to the genome fönstret and försvann |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Felix Herngren |
| script | Felix Herngren Hans Ingemansson Jonas Jonasson |
| production | Felix Herngren Malte Forssell Henrik Jansson-Swiss Patrick Nebout |
| music | Matti Bye |
| camera | Goran Hallberg |
| cut | Hendrik Källberg |
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The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared (original title: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann ) is a Swedish comedy film by Felix Herngren from 2013 , based on the novel of the same name by Jonas Jonasson . The cinema release in Germany was March 20, 2014. In 2016, the sequel The Hundred One Year Old Who Didn't Pay the Bill and Disappeared was produced.
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When a fox kills 99-year-old Allan Karlsson's beloved cat “Molotow”, Allan makes an explosives trap with which he blows up the fox. He is then sent to an old people's home. An hour before the official celebration of his 100th birthday, Allan gets bored, he climbs out the window and buys a bus ticket to the disused Byringe train station. His money doesn't go any further. A young gangster who urgently needs to go to the bathroom urges him to take care of his luggage, a large suitcase on wheels. Meanwhile, the old people's home turns on the police. A dubious inspector takes up Allan's pursuit.
- Flashback 1:
Allan was yelled at all his life. The first to yell at him is his mother when he was born. His father later founds his own republic in the middle of Moscow and is shot. Among other things, he leaves his wife a Fabergé egg , which she gives to the wholesaler Gustavsson for little money out of ignorance. Allan discovers his passion for explosives. His mother dies of a lung disease.
Allan takes the suitcase on the bus to Byringe, where he meets the railroad worker Julius Jonsson, who invites him to dinner. While Allan briefly leaves the house through the back door, the young gangster arrives and beats Julius. Allan knocks him down from behind with a mallet. They lock him in a refrigerator, break open the suitcase and find 50 million Swedish kronor in it. Since the young man is rampaging in the refrigerator, Julius turns on the cooling.
- Flashback 2:
The 14-year-old Allan accidentally blows up the rich dealer Gustavsson during an experiment and is admitted to psychiatry. Years later he was introduced there to the well-known racial biologist Herman Lundborg , who couldn't figure him out, but carried out a sterilization as a precaution .
It turns out that the young gangster with the suitcase belongs to the criminal biker club Never Again . The money is expected from a gang boss in Bali. The local leader, unable to take the chase himself because of an electronic ankle cuff, sends another of his henchmen. The next morning, the two old men notice that the gangster has frozen to death in the refrigerator. You decide to dispose of the corpse taking the suitcase with you.
- Flashback 3:
Allan works in a cannon foundry. His Spanish colleague Esteban persuades him to take part in the Spanish Civil War , where Esteban is shot immediately. Allan accidentally saves General Franco 's life and is invited by him to a party.
Allan and Julius transport the young man's body on a trolley and then put it in an overseas transport crate with destination Djibouti . You continue on foot and invite yourself to the next kiosk at Benny's incapable long-term student as a hitchhiker. The henchman hears a wanted man call on the radio: The police suspect that the biker club kidnapped Allan.
- Flashback 4:
Allan exchanges Franco's gift, a golden revolver, for a work permit in New York. As a waiter for the Manhattan Project , thanks to his experience with explosives, he gives Robert Oppenheimer the decisive tip on the construction of the atomic bomb ( gun design ). This makes him a close friend of Vice President and later President Harry S. Truman . Back in Stockholm, Allan is dragged out to dinner with Swedish government officials. A Soviet physicist, Popov, persuades him to help the Soviets build the atomic bomb and kidnaps him in a submarine.
Benny and the two old men end up on Gunilla's farm with Sonja, the elephant who was freed from a circus by her ex-boyfriend. Suddenly this ex shows up, a brother of the second henchman of the Never Again Club. To get rid of him, Gunilla pretends to be with Benny.
- Flashback 5:
Allan incurs Stalin's anger through careless remarks about Franco at an informal meeting , is arrested and taken to a Gulag labor camp, where he meets Albert Einstein's fictional and very limited twin brother Herbert. After a while, both succeed in a spectacular breakout with the help of a hand grenade.
The Never Again Handlanger learns the whereabouts of Allan from Gunilla's ex, but is crushed by the startled elephant Sonja while trying to steal the suitcase. The friends hide the body in the trunk of his car. Furious, the leader cuts off his ankle and goes on a search himself.
- Flashback 6:
In Paris, Allan and Herbert attend a reception at an embassy and unmask a high-ranking Russian spy. He is then recruited by the CIA. He asks Popov for help and gets to know his son Oleg. Allan becomes a double agent. Gorbachev misunderstood a random audio recording of a remark by Reagan about a garden wall that was supposed to stay standing and decided to have the (Berlin) wall pulled down himself to annoy Reagan.
Oleg, who now owns a logistics company, offers Allan an evacuation by plane. On the way to the landing site, they are overtaken by the “Never Again” leader. He tries to stop them with his car, but underestimates the braking distance of a large bus with an elephant and is run over, whereupon he permanently loses his memory. Since the four friends don't know where to fly, they ask him for fun and he absently says "Bali". Oleg lets the friends fly to Bali, where they happen to be seen by the angry recipient of the money. Because his driver is staring at Allan and the suitcase in disbelief, they collide with an oncoming truck, whereupon their car explodes.
In the end the four friends are with Sonja on the beach in Bali. Allan begins telling Julius his life story while Benny makes a decision for the first time in his life and goes to Gunilla to confess his love to her.
Gross profit
The film grossed around $ 51 million in cinemas worldwide, including $ 1 million in the United States.
reception
The film received mixed to positive reviews. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film received 70% positive ratings. The German reviews were mostly positive, while the film was rated more critically internationally.
"After Jonas Jonasson's world bestseller, the Swede Felix Herngren with comedian ace Robert Gustafsson in the lead role is staging a ludicrous road movie with bizarre characters that not only describes world history, but also really goes to the heart ..."
“The film runs the risk of transferring the indifference with which the unsympathetic title character reacts to the chaos around him to his audience, especially to those who do not understand the special humor of the Swedish comedy […]. 'The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared' is a lengthy joke that is neither funny nor serious. "
“The gangster comedy constantly stumbles in flashbacks over the anecdotes of the rogue of the century. Between the perky Allan, who is amazingly reminiscent of Martin Walser thanks to the mask, the shirt-sleeved Julius (Iwar Wiklander), the shy Benny (David Wiberg) and the robust Gunilla (Mia Skäringer) never comes up with the necessary group dynamics for an anarchist break . All the crazy ideas just seem moderately macabre, the black humor is only matt primed. Jonas Jonasson offers ideas for two films, Felix Herngren's cinema is completely overwhelmed by this abundance. "
"It looks like a ridiculous ' Forrest Gump ' with elements from ' Zelig ', only covered with penis jokes, slapstick games and jokes with elephant endings."
“As a mixture of ' Zelig ' and ' Forrest Gump ', Herngren's successful film adaptation presents itself, which has thinned out the sprawling, narrative thicket of the original without damaging the spirit of Jonasson's novel. The film emphasizes more the dramatic moments of the story and plays out the comedic elements without intrusive amplifying effects. "
The official German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) has awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. Excerpts of the jury's reasoning: “In the adaptation of Jonas Jonasson's bestseller, the life story of the title character is cleverly interwoven with his last adventure, and on both levels the story is full of bizarre characters, absurd coincidences and explosions ... The humor almost always arises from the absurd Situations and not because the characters of contemporary history become caricatures. Because of this, too, the film is never brutal, despite the many corpses paving Allen's path, because it is always told from his perspective, and he remains basically innocent for a hundred years because he stumbles through his life with the big eyes of a child ... Comedian Robert Gustafsson does not play him as a joke, but as a basically gentle fool who becomes invulnerable through his ignorance. Felix Herngren has succeeded in a congenial adaptation of the bestseller. Despite the abundance of episodes, characters and venues, it never breaks down into its individual parts, but looks like it is all of a piece. "
Awards
During the 2016 Academy Awards , Love Larson and Eva von Bahr were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Make-up and Best Hairstyles category.
Web links
- The Hundred Years, which rose out of the window and disappeared in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Hundred Years, which rose from the window and disappeared at rotten tomatoes (English)
- The Hundred Years, which rose from the window and disappeared at Metacritic (English)
- The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared into the online film database
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Centenarian Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 878 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Hundred Year Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2015) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
- ↑ The centenarians, who got out of the window and disappeared at rotten tomatoes (English)
- ^ Criticism from kino.de
- ^ Film review in the Guardian
- ^ Film review in Echo-Online ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Film review in the Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ film review in epd film
- ↑ Rating on fbw-filmbassy.com