The Hundred-year-old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

It's a Swedish Forest Gump as written by Carl Hiaasen. Not exactly literary high art, but an entertaining romp with a mounting body count. Murder and mayhem with a side of slapstick.

Allan Karlsson has led quite the eventful life. An early fascination with explosives and a penchant for the drink has brought him around the world and in the company of Stalin, Churchill, Kim Il Sung, Truman, Mao, Albert Einstein's incompetent brother Herbert, as well as inadvertently finding himself key to the Manhattan Project, the Spanish Civil War and Reagan's Star Wars program. You can see the similarity to Forest Gump but instead of sitting on a bus stop bench proffering chocolates to strangers he, on the day of his 100th birthday, makes off with a suitcase filled with illicit cash which leads to both the police and a notorious biker gang, with less than generous intentions for his health, scouring the countryside looking for him and his growing entourage.