Michael (1924)

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.

Michael is a 1924 movie. Genres: Drama, Romance. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Main cast: Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen. Runtime: 95 minutes. Its average rating is 6.3 out of 10, from 54 votes.