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

Sune Mangs as Churchill

Yngve Gamlin as Djagilev

Lisbeth Zachrisson as Olga

Sven Lindberg as Dr. Albert Schweizer

Lennart Nyman as Henri Rousseau

Tom Younger as Superintendent

Rolv Wesenlund as Grieg

Lissi Alandh as The Woman in Bed (uncredited)

Tomas Alfredson as Paper Boy (uncredited)

Jarl Borssén as Guggenheim (uncredited)

Bengt Brunskog as Street Sweeper (uncredited)

Moltas Eriksson as Butcher at the Studio Party (uncredited)

Hatte Furuhagen as Art Professor (uncredited)

Folke Lindh as Schultze (uncredited)

Hjördis Petterson as Grandmëre (uncredited)

Marga Pettersson as Dancer (uncredited)

Agneta Prytz as Queen (uncredited)

Lasse Pöysti as Sirkka's Father (uncredited)

Stellan Sundahl as French Policeman (uncredited)