Michael

Sep 26, 1924

1h 35m

★ 6.2

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

UFA

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Cast

Michael

Walter Slezak

Jules - Majordomo

Max Auzinger

Princess Lucia Zamikoff

Nora Gregor

Charles Switt - Journalist

Robert Garrison

Claude Zoret

Benjamin Christensen

Duc de Monthieu

Didier Aslan

Mr. Adelsskjold

Alexander Murski

Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold

Grete Mosheim

LeBlanc - Art Dealer

Karl Freund

Widow de Monthieu

Wilhelmine Sandrock

Woman (uncredited)

Mady Christians

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