Michael
IMDB:
6.2
Released
9/26/1924
Duration
1h 35m
Genre
Drama, Romance
Country
Germany
Cast
Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor
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.
Michael
IMDB:
6.2Released
9/26/1924
Genre
Drama, Romance
Cast
Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor
Duration
1h 35m
Country
Germany
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.
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)
