Michael
movie
Released September 26, 1924
Overview
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.
Cast
Walter Slezak
as
Michael
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Max Auzinger
as
Jules - Majordomo
Nora Gregor
as
Princess Lucia Zamikoff
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Robert Garrison
as
Charles Switt - Journalist
Benjamin Christensen
as
Claude Zoret
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Didier Aslan
as
Duc de Monthieu
Alexander Murski
as
Mr. Adelsskjold
Grete Mosheim
as
Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold
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Karl Freund
as
LeBlanc - Art Dealer
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Wilhelmine Sandrock
as
Widow de Monthieu
Mady Christians
as
Woman (uncredited)
Crew
Carl Theodor Dreyer
as
Director
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Herman Bang
as
Novel
Thea von Harbou
as
Adaptation
Thea von Harbou
as
Screenplay
Carl Theodor Dreyer
as
Adaptation
Carl Theodor Dreyer
as
Screenplay
Erich Pommer
as
Producer
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Hans Joseph Vieth
as
Music
Rudolph Maté
as
Director of Photography
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Karl Freund
as
Director of Photography
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Hugo Häring
as
Costume Design
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Hugo Häring
as
Art Direction