Directed by:
Carl Theodor DreyerCinematography:
Karl FreundCast:
Benjamin Christensen, Walter Slezak, Nora Gregor, Karl Freund, Grete Mosheim, Mady Christians, Robert GarrisonPlots(1)
Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a "decadent" elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or "intimate theatre", foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent final film Gertrud, by forty years with its "Now I may die content, for I have seen great love" epigraph. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Benjamin Christensen
Denmark
Best movies:
Det hemmelighedsfulde X (1914)
Michael (1924)
Blind Justice (1916)
Walter Slezak
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
Deadlier Than the Male (1947)
Lifeboat (1944)
Nora Gregor
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Karl Freund
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
Grete Mosheim
German Empire
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
Mady Christians
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Michael (1924)
Heidi (1937)
Robert Garrison
German Empire
Best movies:
Michael (1924)