Michael
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Release Date: September 26, 1924
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 1h 35m
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Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen
Storyline
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.