Michael

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Writers

Thea von Harbou, Herman Bang, Carl Theodor Dreyer

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

26 September 1924

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Walter Slezak

  Michael

• Max Auzinger

  Jules - Majordomo

• 

  Nora Gregor

  Princess Lucia Zamikoff

• 

  Robert Garrison

  Charles Switt - Journalist

• 

  Benjamin Christensen

  Claude Zoret

• Didier Aslan

  Duc de Monthieu

• 

  Alexander Murski

  Mr. Adelsskjold

• 

  Grete Mosheim

  Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold

• 

  Karl Freund

  LeBlanc - Art Dealer

• Wilhelmine Sandrock

  Widow de Monthieu

• 

  Mady Christians

  Woman (uncredited)