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The Adventures of Picasso (Swedish: Picassos äventyr) is a 1978 Swedish comedy film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, as the famous painter. The film had the tag-line Tusen kärleksfulla lögner av Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson (A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson). At the 14th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Film.
The film uses ten languages: Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Finnish, Italian, English, Russian, Norwegian and Latin. Most of these words are very simple (agua, water), sometimes meaning something different from what they seem (Don Jose's military rank, Hauptbahnhof, which means "central rail station" in German) and other times just being complete nonsense.
Original Release
05/20/1978
US Release
08/24/1980
Cast
Name | Character |
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Margaretha Krook | Doña Maria / Dona Maria |
Lena Olin | Dolores |
Bernard Cribbins | Narrator / Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice) |
Wilfrid Brambell | Alice B. Toklas |
Lennart Nyman | Henri Rousseau |
Per Oscarsson | Apollinaire |
Elisabeth Söderström | Mimi |
Gösta Winbergh | Picasso |
Birgitta Andersson | Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim |
Magnus Härenstam | Hitler |
Directors
Writers
Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Margaretha Krook | Doña Maria / Dona Maria |
Lena Olin | Dolores |
Bernard Cribbins | Narrator / Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice) |
Wilfrid Brambell | Alice B. Toklas |
Lennart Nyman | Henri Rousseau |
Per Oscarsson | Apollinaire |
Elisabeth Söderström | Mimi |
Gösta Winbergh | Picasso |
Birgitta Andersson | Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim |
Magnus Härenstam | Hitler |
Sune Mangs | Churchill |
Yngve Gamlin | Djagilev |
Lisbeth Zachrisson | Olga |
Lena Nyman | Sirkka |
Tom Younger | Superintendent |
Rolv Wesenlund | Grieg |
Sven Lindberg | Dr. Albert Schweizer |
Toivo Pawlo | Narrator / Elsa Beskow / Narrator (voice) |
Per Aabel | Margaretha Munthe / Narrator |
Jytte Abildstrøm | English Lady in Blome |