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.

6.2

95 min

Cast

Walter Slezak

as Michael

Max Auzinger

as Jules - Majordomo

Nora Gregor

as Princess Lucia Zamikoff

Robert Garrison

as Charles Switt - Journalist

Benjamin Christensen

as Claude Zoret

Didier Aslan

as Duc de Monthieu

Alexander Murski

as Mr. Adelsskjold

Grete Mosheim

as Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold

Karl Freund

as LeBlanc - Art Dealer

Wilhelmine Sandrock

as Widow de Monthieu

Mady Christians

as Woman (uncredited)

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer