Michael (1924)
Michael is a 1924 German-language drama movie directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, with a running time of 1h 35m. It stars Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger and Nora Gregor.
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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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)