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The Adventures of Picasso

Original title: Picassos äventyr
  • 19781978
  • 1h 28m
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7.4/10
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The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
BiographyComedy
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows 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 di... Read allAlready in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows 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... Read allAlready in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows 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. Tok... Read all
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3.7K
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    • Tage Danielsson
    • Hans Alfredson
    • Tage Danielsson
    • Gösta Ekman(lots of ideas)
  • Stars
    • Gösta Ekman
    • Hans Alfredson
    • Margaretha Krook
    • Tage Danielsson
    • Hans Alfredson
    • Tage Danielsson
    • Gösta Ekman(lots of ideas)
  • Stars
    • Gösta Ekman
    • Hans Alfredson
    • Margaretha Krook
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    • 20User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Hatte Furuhagen in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
    Gösta Ekman and Hatte Furuhagen in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
    Yngve Gamlin in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
    Gösta Ekman and Lena Nyman in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
    Hans Alfredson and Gösta Ekman in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
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    Hans Alfredson and Gösta Ekman in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
    Hans Alfredson and Gösta Ekman in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
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    Hans Alfredson, Gösta Ekman, and Elisabeth Söderström in The Adventures of Picasso (1978)

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    Gösta Ekman
    Gösta Ekman
    • Picasso
    Hans Alfredson
    Hans Alfredson
    • Don José
    Margaretha Krook
    Margaretha Krook
    • Doña Maria
    Lena Olin
    Lena Olin
    • Dolores
    Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins
    • Gertrude Stein…
    Wilfrid Brambell
    Wilfrid Brambell
    • Alice B. Toklas
    Lennart Nyman
    • Henri Rousseau
    Per Oscarsson
    Per Oscarsson
    • Apollinaire
    Elisabeth Söderström
    Elisabeth Söderström
    • Mimi
    Gösta Winbergh
    • Picasso
    • (singing voice)
    • (as Gösta Winberg)
    Birgitta Andersson
    Birgitta Andersson
    • Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim
    Magnus Härenstam
    Magnus Härenstam
    • Hitler
    Sune Mangs
    Sune Mangs
    • Churchill
    Yngve Gamlin
    Yngve Gamlin
    • Djagilev
    Lisbeth Zachrisson
    • Olga
    Lena Nyman
    Lena Nyman
    • Sirkka
    Tom Younger
    • Superintendent
    Rolv Wesenlund
    Rolv Wesenlund
    • Grieg
      • Tage Danielsson
      • Hans Alfredson
      • Tage Danielsson
      • Gösta Ekman(lots of ideas)
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    • Trivia
      When actor Gösta Ekman went to Budapest on vacation, he found that people were looking at him in a very odd way. He eventually understood why when a local asked him if he were Picasso, to which Gösta replied, "If you mean that I played Picasso in a movie then, yeah, that's right." It turned out this movie had great success in Hungary, where it had been playing at a Budapest cinema every year since its release, and has even been adapted for the stage.
    • Goofs
      During the doctors visit after Don Jose death and rigor mortis, the corpse blinks during the doctors efforts to straighten the body out. (this may be explained however, in that it turns out Don Jose was only in suspended animation, and everyone thought he was dead).
    • Quotes

      Superintendant: This rotten french bastard has tried to rape our pure, virgin american people with his dirty fucking pictures.

      Elsa Beskow: ["translates" into Swedish] This unpleasent french gentleman has tried to seduce the nice american people with his unpleasent french paintings.

    • Alternate versions
      Scenes making fun of Prohibition and the electric chair were deleted in the US version, making it eleven minutes shorter than the Swedish original. The filmmakers were not informed.
    • Connections
      Featured in Svenska Ord i bild och tal (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Can-can. Ur Orphée aux enfers
      Composed by Jacques Offenbach

    User reviews20

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    9/10
    Picasso's life in a fun-house mirror!
    Hasse Alfredsson's and Tage Danielsson's films has always had a special place in my heart, and in particular "The Adventures of Picasso". The film is about Picasso's life and art, told through a distorted mirror.

    For those not familiar with Hasse & Tage's style, it might seem to be a somewhat shallow and burlesque film, but it is more than a ordinary comedy. It also shows the trouble of becoming the victim of your own public image, and how the creativity and the personal life may suffer from it. In many ways it is a film in the same spirit as Charlie Chaplin's "The Dictator", slapstick mixed with reflection.

    Pablo Picasso once said that "We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" and I think that "The Adventures of Picasso" encompass this in a very nice way!
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    • Release date
      • May 20, 1978 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Swedish
      • German
      • Spanish
      • Latin
      • Italian
      • French
      • Finnish
      • English
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • Tomelilla, Skåne län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Svenska Ord
      • Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
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    • 1 hour 28 minutes
      • Mono

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