Michael
DramaRomance
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
Walter SlezakMichaelMax AuzingerJules - Majordomo
Nora GregorPrincess Lucia ZamikoffRobert GarrisonCharles Switt - Journalist
Benjamin ChristensenClaude ZoretDidier AslanDuc de Monthieu
Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold
Grete MosheimMrs. Alice AdelsskjoldKarl FreundLeBlanc - Art DealerWilhelmine SandrockWidow de Monthieu
Mady ChristiansWoman (uncredited)
