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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.
general audience, movie lovers
princess, artist, model, silent film, lgbt, gay theme
Germany
asMichael
asJules - Majordomo
asPrincess Lucia Zamikoff
asCharles Switt - Journalist
asClaude Zoret
asDuc de Monthieu
asMr. Adelsskjold
asMrs. Alice Adelsskjold
asLeBlanc - Art Dealer
asWidow de Monthieu
asWoman (uncredited)
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