Basic
Info
Title:
The Adventures of Picasso
Genre:
Comedy
Country:
Sweden
Language:
Swedish
Running
time: 115 minutes
Release
date: 20 May 1978
Staff
Director:
Tage Danielsson
Screenplay:
Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson
Music:
Gunnar Svensson
Cinematography:
Tony Forsberg, Roland Sterner
Editor:
Jan Persson
Cast
Gösta Ekman as Pablo Picasso
Hans Alfredson as Don José
Margaretha Krook as Dona Maria
Lena Olin as Dolores
Bernard Cribbins as Gertrude Stein
Summary
“The Adventures of
Picasso” is a Swedish surrealist comedy film in 1978 directed by Tage
Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. The film
has the tag line "A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage
Danielsson". It won the award for Best Film at the 14th Guldbagge Awards
presented by the Swedish Film Institute.
The film features multiple languages
including Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Finnish, Italian, English, Russian,
Norwegian and Latin. The backgrounds of the film are Spain, London, Paris, Côte
d'Azur and America, but most of the film was shot in and around the Swedish
town of Tomelilla. All of Picasso's paintings featured in the film were made by
a Swedish artist and director of animated films, Per Åhlin.
Railway station, Tomelilla
Movie
Review
“Brilliant film”
“Picasso's life in a fun-house mirror!”
“One of the best movies ever!”
“In the top 5 comedies ever made”
“Picasso would love this”
“Very amusing”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. When actor Gösta Ekman, who
starred as Pablo Picasso in the film, went on vacation to Budapest, he found
that the locals were looking at him in a very odd way. Ekman eventually
understood why when a local asked him if he were Picasso, and he replied to
this question, "If you mean that I played Picasso in a movie, that's
right." After the movie was released, this film had great success in
Hungary and it had been playing at a Budapest cinema every year.
2. Hans Alfredson and Tage
Danielsson, who wrote the script for this film, first thought of making a film
about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but they gave up the film because Mozart's life
was too short.
3. The original idea for this film
came from actor Gösta Ekman, starring Pablo Picasso in the film. He thought it
would be funny to write a guide to a place where people had never been to.
Then, he thought it would be also funny to write a biography over a famous
person like Picasso, whom people never met.
4. The Finnish song, repeatedly
sung by Sirkka in the film, is a recipe of Kalakukko, one of the traditional
Finnish foods with fish baked inside a loaf of bread.
Kalakukko
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