Michael
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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.
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Shot by Karl FreundScored by Hans Joseph Vieth
Also known as
- Michaelde
- Michaelen
- Michaëlfr
- Desiderio del cuoreit
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Cast & Crew
16 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Walter Slezak
as Eugène Michael
Benjamin Christensen
as Claude Zoret
Nora Gregor
as Fürstin Lucia Zamikoff
Alexander Murski
as Herr Adelsskjold
Grete Mosheim
as Frau Alice Adelsskjold
Didier Aslan
as Herzog Monthieu
Robert Garrison
as Kunstkritiker Charles Switt
Max Auzinger
as Jules - Majordomus
Karl Freund
as Kunsthändlr LeBlanc
Wilhelmine Sandrock
as Herzoginwitwe Monthieu
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