---
title: 'Surviving Picasso (1996)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Ivory'
released: '1996-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 120
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/surviving-picasso-1996'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117791/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Surviving Picasso (1996)

1996 · 120 min · Drama, History, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. It was produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the 1988 biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Ivory](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-ivory)
- **Screenplay:** [Ruth Prawer Jhabvala](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-prawer-jhabvala)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Robbins](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-robbins)
- **Producer:** [Humbert Balsan](https://cinepixo.com/people/humbert-balsan), [Ismail Merchant](https://cinepixo.com/people/ismail-merchant), [David L. Wolper](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-l-wolper), [Paul Bradley](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-bradley-2), [Donald Rosenfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-rosenfeld)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tony Pierce-Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-pierce-roberts)
- **Editor:** [Andrew Marcus](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-marcus)

## Cast

- [Jean-Gabriel Nordmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-gabriel-nordmann)
- [Jane Lapotaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-lapotaire)
- [Peter Eyre](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-eyre)
- [Vernon Dobtcheff](https://cinepixo.com/people/vernon-dobtcheff)
- [Andreas Wisniewski](https://cinepixo.com/people/andreas-wisniewski)
- [Olivier Galfione](https://cinepixo.com/people/olivier-galfione)
- [Bob Peck](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-peck)
- [Anthony Hopkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-hopkins)
- [Joan Plowright](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-plowright)
- [Joseph Maher](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-maher)
- [Natascha McElhone](https://cinepixo.com/people/natascha-mcelhone)
- [Peter Gerety](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-gerety)
- [Tom Fisher](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-fisher)
- [Susannah Harker](https://cinepixo.com/people/susannah-harker)
- [Joss Ackland](https://cinepixo.com/people/joss-ackland)

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