The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso (1978)

Picassos äventyr

A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

Date of release
1978-05-20
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (64)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Tage Danielsson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Sweden
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Greta

The Adventures of Picasso is a 1978 Swedish surrealist 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. At the 14th Guldbagge Awards it won the award for Best Film.

Production

Gösta Ekman originally thought it would be funny to write a book about a place that you never visited. In the same manner it would be funny to do a biography about a person you never met. Like Mozart, Jesus or Picasso.

Despite the fact that this movie is set in Spain, London, Paris, the French Riviera and America most of the movie was shot in and around the Swedish town of Tomelilla. Many of the scenes are filmed at the same street. Using a glasspainting in front of the camera and changing a few things on the set, the filmmakers could turn the little street of Tomelilla into all the big cities shown in this film.

All of Picasso's paintings for this movie were made by Per Åhlin. After the film's premiere the paintings by Per Åhlin were shown at a vernissage in Tomelilla with pricetags from 222 220 kronor and up. All except one, Elsa Melon, that only cost 40 kr, but it was listed as already sold.

Sirkka's song is actually a recipe for pastry of fish and bacon.

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