Michael
1924, Film, 93 min, Drama, Romance, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 65
A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
- Walter Slezak as Eugène Michael
- Benjamin Christensen as Claude Zoret
- Nora Gregor as Fürstin Lucia Zamikoff
- Alexander Murski as Herr Adelsskjold
- Grete Mosheim as Frau Alice Adelsskjold
- Didier Aslan as Herzog Monthieu
- Robert Garrison as Kunstkritiker Charles Switt
- Max Auzinger as Jules - Majordomus
- Karl Freund as Kunsthändlr LeBlanc
- Wilhelmine Sandrock as Herzoginwitwe Monthieu
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