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The Visit to Picasso

Mike Booth · UK · Drama / War · 13 min · 18K views

Directed by Mike Booth · Starring Gary Taylor, Neville Cann, Blake Barbiche, Harry Benfield · 2016

In occupied Paris, 1944, a harassed and banned Pablo Picasso keeps painting despite the Gestapo at his door.

A tense chamber piece imagining Picasso's defiance under Nazi occupation.

Paris, 1944. Pablo Picasso is forbidden from exhibiting his paintings and is frequently harassed by the Gestapo. Despite this, he chooses to stay and continue with his work.

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