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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.
DramaRomance 95 min 6.2/10 from 50 votes
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Cast
- Walter Slezak as Michael
- Max Auzinger as Jules - Majordomo
- Nora Gregor as Princess Lucia Zamikoff
- Robert Garrison as Charles Switt - Journalist
- Benjamin Christensen as Claude Zoret