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.
as Michael
as Jules - Majordomo
as Princess Lucia Zamikoff
as Charles Switt - Journalist
as Claude Zoret
as Duc de Monthieu
as Mr. Adelsskjold
as Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold
as LeBlanc - Art Dealer
as Widow de Monthieu
as Woman (uncredited)
