Michael

Michael — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michael — Cast

Walter Slezak Michael

M

Max Auzinger Jules - Majordomo Nora Gregor Princess Lucia Zamikoff Robert Garrison Charles Switt - Journalist Benjamin Christensen Claude Zoret

D

Didier Aslan Duc de Monthieu Alexander Murski Mr. Adelsskjold Grete Mosheim Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold