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