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Michael (1924)

Michael (1924)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1924, September 26
Directors: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Countries: Germany
Production: UFA
Cast: Robert Garrison, Grete Mosheim, Walter Slezak, Mady Christians, Nora Gregor, Alexander Murski, Wilhelmine Sandrock, Didier Aslan, Max Auzinger

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.

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lgbt gay theme princess artist model silent film