The Adventures of Picasso (1978)

Director
Tage Danielsson

Main cast
Gösta Ekman; Hans Alfredson; Margaretha Krook; Lena Olin; Lena Nyman

Genres
Comedy

Description
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.


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