Michael
26/09/1924
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.
Movie Information
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)
