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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.
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Cast
Walter SlezakEugene Michael
Benjamin ChristensenClaude Zoret
Nora GregorPrincess Lucia Zamikoff- Max AuzingerJules - Majordomo
Robert GarrisonCharles Switt - Art Critic
Karl FreundLeBlanc - Art Dealer
Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold
Grete MosheimMrs. Alice Adelsskjold- Didier AslanDuke Monthieu
- Wilhelmine SandrockDowager Duchess Monthieu
- Eugène de KlotzBaron
Mady ChristiansWoman (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Writers
- Herman Bang, Thea von Harbou, Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Release date
- September 26, 1924
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Original language
- German
- Studios
- UFA
