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 ...
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| Gösta Ekman | ... | Picasso | |
| Hans Alfredson | ... | Don José | |
| Margaretha Krook | ... | Doña Maria | |
| Lena Olin | ... | Dolores | |
| Bernard Cribbins | ... | Gertrude Stein / Narrator | |
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Wilfrid Brambell | ... | Alice B. Toklas |
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Lennart Nyman | ... | Henri Rousseau |
| Per Oscarsson | ... | Apollinaire | |
| Elisabeth Söderström | ... | Mimi | |
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Gösta Winbergh | ... | Picasso (singing voice) (as Gösta Winberg) |
| Birgitta Andersson | ... | Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim | |
| Magnus Härenstam | ... | Hitler | |
| Sune Mangs | ... | Churchill | |
| Yngve Gamlin | ... | Djagilev | |
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Lisbeth Zachrisson | ... | Olga |
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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. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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SwedenRelease Date:
20 May 1978 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
The Adventures of Picasso See more »Filming Locations:
Tomelilla, Skåne län, SwedenEdit
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[from the opera "La Bohème"]
Composed by Giacomo Puccini (1896)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica (Italian text 1896)
Sung by Gösta Winbergh (in Italian, dub. Gösta Ekman )
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The building used for exterior shots of Picasso Inc. Industries is the SR/Swedish Radio complex in Stockholm. See more »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). See more »Quotes
Elsa Beskow: [on Picasso's painting depicting a hideous version of a woman] And that was the birth of monsterism.See more »
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Che gelida manina.[from the opera "La Bohème"]
Composed by Giacomo Puccini (1896)
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica (Italian text 1896)
Sung by Gösta Winbergh (in Italian, dub. Gösta Ekman )
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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!