Michael
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Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writers
Herman Bang, Thea von Harbou, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars
Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
Release Date
November 17, 1924
Language
None
Country
Germany
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🎭 Top Cast
Walter Slezak
as Eugène Michael
Benjamin Christensen
as Claude Zoret
Nora Gregor
as Fürstin Lucia Zamikoff
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Alexander Murski
as Herr Adelsskjold
Grete Mosheim
as Frau Alice Adelsskjold
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Didier Aslan
as Herzog Monthieu
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Robert Garrison
as Kunstkritiker Charles Switt
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Max Auzinger
as Jules - Majordomus
Karl Freund
as Kunsthändlr LeBlanc
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Wilhelmine Sandrock
as Herzoginwitwe Monthieu
🎬 Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Production
Universum Film (UFA)
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I actually found it a little bland
"One of the major significances of Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Michael" is that it is one of the earliest movies that focus on homosexuality (although some earlier movies also did). Elderly painter Claude Zoret (Benjamin Christensen) becomes infatuated with his subject Michael (Walter Slezak), while amoral princess Lucia Zamikov* (Nora Gregor) enters both their lives. Despite the look at the relationship between the artist and his subject, I actually found most of the movie to be kind of tedious. It sort of came across as a look at bored rich people. Maybe that's just my interpr..."
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Grete Mosheim's debut.
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Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.