Michael
Starring: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen
Writer: Herman Bang, Thea von Harbou, Thea von Harbou, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Release Date:
September 26, 1924
September 26, 1924
Ratings:
6.2 / 10
6.2 / 10
Director:
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Companies:
UFA
UFA
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.
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