Michael (1924)
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.
Top Cast
Walter Slezak
Michael
M
Max Auzinger
Jules - Majordomo
Nora Gregor
Princess Lucia Zamikoff
R
Robert Garrison
Charles Switt - Journalist
Benjamin Christensen
Claude Zoret
D
Didier Aslan
Duc de Monthieu
Alexander Murski
Mr. Adelsskjold
Grete Mosheim
Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold
K
Karl Freund
LeBlanc - Art Dealer
W
Wilhelmine Sandrock
Widow de Monthieu
Mady Christians
Woman (uncredited)
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