The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
"Picassos äventyr" (original title)

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is ... See full summary »

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Writers:

Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson

Stars:

Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gösta Ekman	...	Picasso
Hans Alfredson	...	Don Jose
Margaretha Krook	...	Dona Maria
Lena Olin	...	Dolores
Bernard Cribbins	...	Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)
Wilfrid Brambell	...	Alice B. Toklas
Lennart Nyman	...	Henri Rousseau
Per Oscarsson	...	Apollinaire
Elisabeth Söderström	...	Mimi
Gösta Winbergh	...	Picasso (singing voice)
Birgitta Andersson	...	Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim
Magnus Härenstam	...	Hitler
Sune Mangs	...	Churchill
Yngve Gamlin	...	Djagilev
Lisbeth Zachrisson	...	Olga

Storyline

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.

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Plot Keywords:

pablo picasso | painter | art | hitler | fictional biography | 

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Taglines:

Tusen kärleksfulla lögner av Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish German Spanish Latin Italian French Finnish English Russian

Release Date:

20 May 1978 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

The Adventures of Picasso

Filming Locations:

Tomelilla, Skåne län, Sweden

Box Office

Budget:

SEK 7,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

SEK 22,291,096 (Sweden)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Svenska Ord

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The original idea for this movie came from actor Gösta Ekman. He thought it would be funny to write a guide to a place were you never been. Then, he thought that it was almost the same thing to write a biography over a person you never met. Someone famous, like Jesus or Picasso.

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Quotes

Don Jose: Pablo. Tu est genial! Genial!

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Connections

Featured in Svenska Ord i bild och tal (2006)

User Reviews

One of the best movies ever....yes it is!

This movie contains so many weird and funny things that I think you could watch it 100 times and still discover new things in every scene! Every little detail is just so perfect and thought through. Things that you discover first after a while, i.e. that Picassos father is saying halvliter ("half liter") instead of "Heil Hitler". All the acting throughout the movie is spectacular. It has to be since all of the language in the movie (except for the narrator) is just rubbish really. Everything they "say" is enforced by acting and it's impressing how one can understand an entire movie without any real language. This is simply a thoughtful, beautiful, weird, spectacular, funny, great, epic movie. Watch it!