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.
- Created by
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Origin
- DE
- TMDB rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 53 votes
Cast
Walter SlezakMichael- Max AuzingerJules - Majordomo
Nora GregorPrincess Lucia Zamikoff- Robert GarrisonCharles Switt - Journalist
Benjamin ChristensenClaude Zoret- Didier AslanDuc de Monthieu
Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold
Grete MosheimMrs. Alice Adelsskjold- Karl FreundLeBlanc - Art Dealer
- Wilhelmine SandrockWidow de Monthieu
