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Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
55 audience votes
Key crew
- Carl Theodor DreyerScreenplay
- Carl Theodor DreyerDirector
- Thea von HarbouScreenplay
Cast
- Walter SlezakMichael
- Max AuzingerJules - Majordomo
- Nora GregorPrincess Lucia Zamikoff
- Robert GarrisonCharles Switt - Journalist
- Benjamin ChristensenClaude Zoret
- Didier AslanDuc de Monthieu
- Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold
- Grete MosheimMrs. Alice Adelsskjold
- Karl FreundLeBlanc - Art Dealer
- Wilhelmine SandrockWidow de Monthieu
- Mady ChristiansWoman (uncredited)
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Themes
princessartistmodelsilent filmlgbtgay theme