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 Thea von Harbou
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Cast
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Walter Slezak Eugene Michael -
Benjamin Christensen Claude Zoret -
Nora Gregor Princess Lucia Zamikoff - Max Auzinger Jules - Majordomo
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Robert Garrison Charles Switt - Art Critic -
Karl Freund LeBlanc - Art Dealer -
Alexander Murski Mr. Adelsskjold -
Grete Mosheim Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold - Didier Aslan Duke Monthieu
- Wilhelmine Sandrock Dowager Duchess Monthieu
- Eugène de Klotz Baron
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Mady Christians Woman (uncredited)
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