Released:
1924-09-26

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.

Director:
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Walter Slezak
  as
  Michael
• 
  Max Auzinger
  as
  Jules - Majordomo
• 
  Nora Gregor
  as
  Princess Lucia Zamikoff
• 
  Robert Garrison
  as
  Charles Switt - Journalist
• 
  Benjamin Christensen
  as
  Claude Zoret