Michael (1924)
93 min
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.
- Release date
- September 26, 1924
- Country of origin
- Germany
Where to watch
Free
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Trailer
Cast
- Walter Slezak as Eugène Michael
- Benjamin Christensen as Claude Zoret
- Nora Gregor as Fürstin Lucia Zamikoff
- Max Auzinger as Jules - Majordomus
- Robert Garrison as Kunstkritiker Charles Switt
- Karl Freund as Kunsthändlr LeBlanc
- Alexander Murski as Herr Adelsskjold
- Grete Mosheim as Frau Alice Adelsskjold
- Didier Aslan as Herzog Monthieu
- Wilhelmine Sandrock as Herzoginwitwe Monthieu
- Mady Christians as Woman (uncredited)
Crew
- Carl Theodor Dreyer · Director
- Herman Bang · Writer
- Thea von Harbou · Writer
- Carl Theodor Dreyer · Writer
- Erich Pommer · Producer
- Hans Joseph Vieth · Composer
- Karl Freund · Cinematographer
- Rudolph Maté · Cinematographer