The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso
Film poster
Directed byTage Danielsson
Written byTage Danielsson, Hans Alfredson (with a few ideas from Gösta Ekman)
Produced byStaffan Hedqvist
StarringGösta Ekman
Hans Alfredson
Margaretha Krook
Narrated byTovio Pawlo (Swedish version)
Bernard Cribbins (English version)
Ove Sprogøe (Danish version)
Per Aabel (Norwegian version)
Raymond Bussières (French version).
CinematographyTony Forsberg, Roland Sterner
Edited byJan Persson
Music byGunnar Svensson, Erik Satie, Jan Allan
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri (SF)
Release date
  • 20 May 1978 (1978-05-20)
Running time
115 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

The Adventures of Picasso (Swedish: Picassos äventyr) 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 (A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson). At the 14th Guldbagge Awards it won the award for Best Film.[1]

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.

  1. ^ "Picassos äventyr (1978)". Swedish Film Institute. 8 March 2014.