Michael
1924 · directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Rating
- 78/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Michael (1924), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, rates 78/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Walter Slezak
- Benjamin Christensen
- Nora Gregor
- Max Auzinger
- Robert Garrison
- Karl Freund
- Alexander Murski
- Grete Mosheim
- Didier Aslan
- Wilhelmine Sandrock
Crew
- Karl Freund — Director of Photography
- Rudolph Maté — Director of Photography
- Carl Theodor Dreyer — Screenplay
- Thea von Harbou — Screenplay
More from Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ordet (1955) — 100/100 · hit
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) — 99/100 · hit
- Day of Wrath (1943) — 88/100 · hit
- Vampyr (1932) — 83/100 · hit
- Master of the House (1925) — 82/100 · hit
- Gertrud (1964) — 72/100
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