Michael

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.

Genre:

Drama, Romance

Duration:

95 min

Cast:

Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor

Quality:

HD

Director:

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Release:

1924

Country:

Germany

Rating:

6.4