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Film / 1924
Michael
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
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.
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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.
Cast
Walter SlezakMichael
Max AuzingerJules - Majordomo
Nora GregorPrincess Lucia Zamikoff
Robert GarrisonCharles Switt - Journalist
Benjamin ChristensenClaude Zoret
Didier AslanDuc de Monthieu
Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold
Grete MosheimMrs. Alice Adelsskjold
Karl FreundLeBlanc - Art Dealer
Wilhelmine SandrockWidow de Monthieu
Mady ChristiansWoman (uncredited)
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