Michael

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

Walter Slezak

Michael

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Max Auzinger

Jules - Majordomo

Nora Gregor

Princess Lucia Zamikoff

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Robert Garrison

Charles Switt - Journalist

Benjamin Christensen

Claude Zoret

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Didier Aslan

Duc de Monthieu

Alexander Murski

Mr. Adelsskjold

Grete Mosheim

Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold

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Karl Freund

LeBlanc - Art Dealer

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Wilhelmine Sandrock

Widow de Monthieu

Mady Christians

Woman (uncredited)