Michael

1924

95 min Drama , Romance 6.4 7 likes

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:

Herman Bang, Thea von Harbou, Carl Theodor Dreyer

Production:

N/A

Country:

Germany

Cast