Michael
Also known as Chained, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, Heart's Desire, Mikaël, Desiderio del cuore
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 Slezak
Eugene Michael
Benjamin Christensen
Claude Zoret
Nora Gregor
Princess Lucia Zamikoff
Max Auzinger
Jules - Majordomo
Robert Garrison
Charles Switt - Art Critic
Karl Freund
LeBlanc - Art Dealer
Alexander Murski
Mr. Adelsskjold
Grete Mosheim
Mrs. Alice Adelsskjold
Didier Aslan
Duke Monthieu
Wilhelmine Sandrock
Dowager Duchess Monthieu
Eugène de Klotz
Baron
Mady Christians
Woman (uncredited)
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