17/03/2014 - Following its Nordic release, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared will open in Germany on 20 March

Released domestically on Christmas Day last year, Swedish director Felix Herngren’s The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared [+see also:
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“I am really glad it keeps going like this – a big thanks to all the Swedes who have bothered to leave home and have seen the film in the theatres,” said Herngren. “I wish I went more often to the cinema myself – it is the optimal way to watch a film.”

The Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, Patrick Nebout, Malte Forssell and Herngren production for Nice Flx Pictures was co-produced by Walt Disney Sweden, which handled local distribution; through Disney Nordic it has since sold 455,000 tickets in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway, closing in on two million in Scandinavia.

According to Disney Nordic, the screen adaption of Swedish author Jonas Jonasson's 2009 novel will open in Germany on 20 March through Concorde Film; besides Benelux (Wild Bunch), it has been licensed to France’s Studio Canal for the rest of the world.

Selected for the Special Gala section at the recent Berlinale, the comedy-drama scripted by Herngren and Hans Ingemansson stars Robert Gustafsson as Allan Karlsson, who leaves his retirement home before his 100th birthday party with a suitcase full of drug money, and is subsequently chased by both dealers and the police.

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was nominated for the Guldbagge Awards – Sweden’s national film prize – in three categories and won in the fourth, the Audience Award, which was voted on by local audiences.