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.
Gösta Ekman
as Picasso
Hans Alfredson
as Don Jose
Margaretha Krook
as Dona Maria
Lena Olin
as Dolores
Lena Nyman
as Sirkka
Toivo Pawlo
as Elsa Beskow / Narrator (voice)
Bernard Cribbins
as Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)
Wilfrid Brambell
as Alice B. Toklas
Per Oscarsson
as Apollinaire
Elisabeth Söderström
as Mimi
Birgitta Andersson
as Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim
Magnus Härenstam
as Hitler
