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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is full of these. The protagonist, Pablo Picasso, is one of these of course, but a lot of his contemporaries also appear in the film.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is full of these. The protagonist, It loosely follows Pablo Picasso, is one of these of course, but Picasso's life, and a lot of his contemporaries also appear in the film.film, including artists like Braque, Matisse, Fernand Léger, Ernest Hemingway, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Vincent van Gogh and [[MindScrew no less than two]] Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as political leaders like AdolfHitler and WinstonChurchill.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The movie was very popular in Hungary, and eventually got a ScreenToStageAdaptation there.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The movie was very popular in Hungary, and eventually got a ScreenToStageAdaptation there.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The Swedish town Tomelilla doubles for Madrid, Paris, [[DoublingForLondon London]], and New York, among other places. In fact, there's one shot in every city that shows the same street from the same angle as a sort of LampshadeHanging.
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** Notably averted by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, both played by British actors, and Grieg, the Norwegian electrician. Also semi-averted by Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim, a Swedish-American woman played by a Swedish actress.
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* StreetMusician: Don José pretends to be a blind street musician after World War I. [[spoiler: When he puts down his violin, it goes on playing the tune, then a close-up reveals that it is actually a wind-up music box.]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is full of these. The film stars, of course, Pablo Picasso, but a lot of his contemporaries also appear in the film.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is full of these. The film stars, of course, protagonist, Pablo Picasso, is one of these of course, but a lot of his contemporaries also appear in the film.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The film is full of these. The film stars, of course, Pablo Picasso, but a lot of his contemporaries also appear in the film.
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* FatAndSkinny: Two background extras who appear together in many scenes.
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* MoodLighting: The scene at Sirkka's home switches between full-colour and black-and-white as she enters and leaves the room.

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* DamselInDistress: When Picasso meets Dolores, she's attacked by bandits.



* SpicyLatina: Picasso's mother, Doña María, despite being played by [[FakeNationality the Swedish actress Margaretha Krook]].

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* SpicyLatina: Picasso's mother, Doña María, and, to a lesser extent, his early romance Dolores, despite being played by [[FakeNationality the Swedish actress actresses Margaretha Krook]].Krook and Lena Olin]], respectively.
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* SpicyLatina: Picasso's mother, Doña María, despite being played by [[FakeNationality the Swedish actress Margaretha Krook]].
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* ButchLesbian: [[AmbiguouslyGay Possibly]] Gertrude Stein. She looks, sounds and acts very masculine ([[CrosscastRole and is played by a man]]), and seems to have a thing for her friend Alice B. Toklas.
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* ChildProdigy: The young Pablo, kneading a bust out of dough.

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* DrillSergeantNasty: The art teacher at the Academy.


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* SadistTeacher: The art teacher at the Academy.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The art teacher at the Academy.
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* CrosscastRole: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

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* CrosscastRole: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.Toklas are played by the British comedians Bernard Cribbins and Wilfrid Brambell, respectively.
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* CrosscastRole: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Narrator speaks in Swedish, but the characters speak (often very broken) Spanish, French, English, German, Finnish and Norwegian. The things they say are regularly out of context, and it provides a lot of BilingualBonus if you understand what they are saying.

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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Narrator speaks in Swedish, but the characters speak (often very broken) Spanish, French, English, German, Russian, Finnish and Norwegian. The things they say are regularly out of context, and it provides a lot of BilingualBonus if you understand what they are saying.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: Picasso is in France during World War II. He hides a handful of (presumably Jewish) refugees in his apartment, with the Nazis (led by Picasso's father) coming regularly for perquisition. HilarityEnsues.

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* ThoseWackyNazis: Picasso is in France during World War II. He hides a handful of (presumably Jewish) refugees in his apartment, with the Nazis (led by Picasso's father) coming regularly for perquisition. HilarityEnsues. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susrM6acLbo See it yourself.]]



* ToiletHumor: The Russian ballet scene, where the dancers have cauliflower for dinner, turning everyone into a {{Gasshole}}.

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* ToiletHumor: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3YSWbf8_74 The Russian ballet scene, scene]], where the dancers have cauliflower for dinner, turning everyone into a {{Gasshole}}.
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* GainaxEnding: The ending scene is pretty bizarre. [[Spoiler: It's even unclear whether Picasso dies or not.]]

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* GainaxEnding: The ending scene is pretty bizarre. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: It's even unclear whether Picasso dies or not.]]
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* GainaxEnding: The ending scene is pretty bizarre. [[Spoiler: It's even unclear whether Picasso dies or not.]]
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* MindScrew: The whole film is surreal, but some scenes, like the ending, are especially weird.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Don José's funeral.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Picasso's mother. She can turn from gentle and loving to fierce and furious and back in seconds. Several times within one scene.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Picasso's mother. She can turn from gentle and loving to fierce and furious and back in seconds. Several times within one scene.scene.
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* ToiletHumor: The Russian ballet scene, where the dancers have cauliflower for dinner, turning everyone into a {{Gasshole}}.

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* ToiletHumor: The Russian ballet scene, where the dancers have cauliflower for dinner, turning everyone into a {{Gasshole}}.{{Gasshole}}.
* {{Tsundere}}: Picasso's mother. She can turn from gentle and loving to fierce and furious and back in seconds. Several times within one scene.
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* HotBlooded: Picasso's mother, appropriately for a Spanish lady.
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'''''Picassos äventyr''''' (''The Adventures of Picasso'') is a surreal Swedish comedy loosely based on the life of Pablo Picasso.

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'''''Picassos äventyr''''' (''The Adventures of Picasso'') is a surreal Swedish comedy from 1978 loosely based on the life of Pablo Picasso.



* Biopic: A parody of the genre.

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* Biopic: {{Biopic}}: A parody of the genre.

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* Biopic: A parody of the genre.



* IdenticalGrandson: Dolores and her granddaughter.

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* IdenticalGrandson: [[spoiler: Dolores and her granddaughter.]]
* InteractiveNarrator: Near the end, the Narrator directly asks questions from Picasso.
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'''''Picassos äventyr''''' (''The Adventures of Picasso'') is a surreal Swedish comedy loosely based on the life of Pablo Picasso.

'''This film provides examples of:'''
* CulturePolice: In America, Prohibition is not about alcohol, but art. Secret galleries work as speakeasies for people who want to see art, and are raided by the police; smugglers bring in paintings and sculpture from Canada, and Picasso gets a job producing, essentially, the art equivalent of moonshine for art-starved Americans.
* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgt4A2XNzDg The Kalakukko song]]. Treated like that in-universe too.
* FakeNationality: Most characters are played by Swedish actors.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Narrator speaks in Swedish, but the characters speak (often very broken) Spanish, French, English, German, Finnish and Norwegian. The things they say are regularly out of context, and it provides a lot of BilingualBonus if you understand what they are saying.
* IdenticalGrandson: Dolores and her granddaughter.
* StalkerWithACrush: Ingrid Guggenheim to Picasso.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Picasso is in France during World War II. He hides a handful of (presumably Jewish) refugees in his apartment, with the Nazis (led by Picasso's father) coming regularly for perquisition. HilarityEnsues.
** In another scene, AdolfHitler himself appears in a rather hilarious [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP7camnyge8 painting duel]] against WinstonChurchill.
* ToiletHumor: The Russian ballet scene, where the dancers have cauliflower for dinner, turning everyone into a {{Gasshole}}.

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