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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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)Screenings in Brussels
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