Michael
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 · Written by Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Cast
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Walter Slezak Michael - Max Auzinger Jules - Majordomo
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Nora Gregor Princess Lucia Zamikoff -
Robert Garrison Charles Switt - Journalist -
Benjamin Christensen Claude Zoret - Didier Aslan Duc de Monthieu
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Alexander Murski Mr. Adelsskjold -
Grete Mosheim Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold -
Karl Freund LeBlanc - Art Dealer - Wilhelmine Sandrock Widow de Monthieu
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Mady Christians Woman (uncredited)
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Michael
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