Michael

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Walter Slezak Eugene Michael

Benjamin Christensen Claude Zoret

Nora Gregor Princess Lucia Zamikoff

Max Auzinger Jules - Majordomo

Robert Garrison Charles Switt - Art Critic