Gösta Ekman

Picasso

Hans Alfredson

Don Jose

Margaretha Krook

Dona Maria

Lena Olin

Dolores

Lena Nyman

Sirkka

Toivo Pawlo

Elsa Beskow / Narrator (voice)

Bernard Cribbins

Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)

Wilfrid Brambell

Alice B. Toklas

Per Oscarsson

Apollinaire

Elisabeth Söderström

Mimi

Birgitta Andersson

Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim

Magnus Härenstam

Hitler

Sune Mangs

Churchill

Yngve Gamlin

Djagilev

Lisbeth Zachrisson

Olga

Sven Lindberg

Dr. Albert Schweizer

Rolv Wesenlund

Grieg

Lissi Alandh

The Woman in Bed (uncredited)

Tomas Alfredson

Paper Boy (uncredited)

Jarl Borssén

Guggenheim (uncredited)

Bengt Brunskog

Street Sweeper (uncredited)

Folke Lindh

Schultze (uncredited)

Hjördis Petterson

Grandmëre (uncredited)

Agneta Prytz

Queen (uncredited)

Stellan Sundahl

French Policeman (uncredited)