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
Lennart Nyman
— Henri Rousseau
Tom Younger
— Superintendent
Rolv Wesenlund
— Grieg
Lissi Alandh
— The Woman in Bed (uncredited)
Tomas Alfredson
— Paper Boy (uncredited)
Jarl Borssén
— Guggenheim (uncredited)
Bengt Brunskog
— Street Sweeper (uncredited)
Moltas Eriksson
— Butcher at the Studio Party (uncredited)
Hatte Furuhagen
— Art Professor (uncredited)
Folke Lindh
— Schultze (uncredited)
Hjördis Petterson
— Grandmëre (uncredited)
Marga Pettersson
— Dancer (uncredited)
Agneta Prytz
— Queen (uncredited)
Lasse Pöysti
— Sirkka's Father (uncredited)