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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Hans Alfredson (writer) &
Tage Danielsson (writer)
Release Date:
20 May 1978 (Sweden) more
Tagline:
Tusen kärleksfulla lögner av Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson
Plot:
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Picasso's life in a fun-house mirror! more (13 total)
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's singing voice (voice) | |
| Birgitta Andersson | ... | Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim | |
| Magnus Härenstam | ... | Hitler | |
| Sune Mangs | ... | Churchill | |
| Yngve Gamlin | ... | Djagilev | |
| Lisbeth Zachrisson | ... | Olga |
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Also Known As:
The Adventures of Picasso (USA)
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Runtime:
109 min | USA:88 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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The movie contains 10 languages: Swedish, English, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Norwegian and Latin. Most sentences in the "foreign" languages (apart from the narration in Swedish) mean something completely other than what it seems, or mean nothing in particular: for example the lyric of the famous Finnish song is actually a recipe. more
Quotes:
Elsa Beskow: [on Picasso's painting depicting a hideous version of a woman] And that was the birth of monsterism. more
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Featured in Svenska ord i bild och tal (2006) more
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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!