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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.
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Walter SlezakMichael -
Max AuzingerJules - Majordomo
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Nora GregorPrincess Lucia Zamikoff -
Robert GarrisonCharles Switt - Journalist
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Benjamin ChristensenClaude Zoret -
Didier AslanDuc de Monthieu
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Alexander MurskiMr. Adelsskjold -
Grete MosheimMrs. Alice Adelsskjold -
Karl FreundLeBlanc - Art Dealer
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Wilhelmine SandrockWidow de Monthieu
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Mady ChristiansWoman (uncredited)

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