Man and Machine
It's Allan Karlsson's (Robert Gustafsson) birthday. He's turning 100. But instead of looking forward to the planned birthday party, he abruptly disappears from the retirement home and sets off in his…
Man and Machine
It's Allan Karlsson's (Robert Gustafsson) birthday. He's turning 100. But instead of looking forward to the planned birthday party, he abruptly disappears from the retirement home and sets off in his slippers for the local bus station. The few coins in his pocket are just enough for a ticket to a nearby village. Allan is fleeing boredom and any destination will do. It is by chance that he embarks on his journey with a suitcase full of money. A violent rocker and member of a criminal gang has unceremoniously handed it to him to look after because the toilet was too small for the bulky item. This is the beginning of Allan's journey, on which he meets new friends and is hunted by crooks, thugs and police officers. But all this excitement is nothing new for Allan, who has spent the last 100 years turning the political world upside down and experiencing more adventures than seem possible in a single lifetime: As a young man, he takes part in the Spanish Civil War, where he accidentally saves Franco's (Koldo Losada) life. Later, he arrives in New York, where he gives Robert Oppenheimer (Philip Rosch) an important tip for building the atomic bomb and becomes a close friend of Harry S. Truman (Kerry Shale). He incurs the wrath of Stalin (Algirdas Paulavicius), ends up in a Siberian labor camp, where he meets Albert Einstein's (David Shackleton) brother, is recruited by the CIA and eventually becomes a double agent. At the end of his last great journey, he sits on the beach in Bali with Sonja the elephant and can look back calmly and relaxed on his adventurous life and tell his new friend Julius (Iwar Wikander) about all the monstrous things that have happened to him.
Man and Machine
Documentary,Sport
Film Details
It's Allan Karlsson's (Robert Gustafsson) birthday. He's turning 100. But instead of looking forward to the planned birthday party, he abruptly disappears from the retirement home and sets off in his slippers for the local bus station.
The few coins in his pocket are just enough for a ticket to a nearby village. Allan is fleeing boredom and any destination will do. It is by chance that he embarks on his journey with a suitcase full of money.
A violent rocker and member of a criminal gang has unceremoniously handed it to him to look after because the toilet was too small for the bulky item. This is the beginning of Allan's journey, on which he meets new friends and is hunted by crooks, thugs and police officers. But all this excitement is nothing new for Allan, who has spent the last 100 years turning the political world upside down and experiencing more adventures than seem possible in a single lifetime: As a young man, he takes part in the Spanish Civil War, where he accidentally saves Franco's (Koldo Losada) life.
Later, he arrives in New York, where he gives Robert Oppenheimer (Philip Rosch) an important tip for building the atomic bomb and becomes a close friend of Harry S. Truman (Kerry Shale). He incurs the wrath of Stalin (Algirdas Paulavicius), ends up in a Siberian labor camp, where he meets Albert Einstein's (David Shackleton) brother, is recruited by the CIA and eventually becomes a double agent.
At the end of his last great journey, he sits on the beach in Bali with Sonja the elephant and can look back calmly and relaxed on his adventurous life and tell his new friend Julius (Iwar Wikander) about all the monstrous things that have happened to him..