Michael

Overview

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 Slezak

Eugene Michael

Benjamin Christensen

Claude Zoret

Nora Gregor

Princess Lucia Zamikoff

M

Max Auzinger

Jules - Majordomo

Robert Garrison

Charles Switt - Art Critic

Karl Freund

LeBlanc - Art Dealer

Alexander Murski

Mr. Adelsskjold

Grete Mosheim

Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold

D

Didier Aslan

Duke Monthieu

W

Wilhelmine Sandrock

Dowager Duchess Monthieu

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