Lauded in film history for the resplendent The Passion of Joan of Arc, Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer honed his emotionally mature, epic style in the pioneering silent film Michael. A sensitive and compassionate portrayal of gay romance, this novel adaptation refashions the Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle. Aging artist Zoret’s (Benjamin Christensen) yearning for his longtime model Michael (Walter Slezak) reaches new dizzying heights when Princess Zamikoff (Nora Gregor) becomes entranced with Michael’s beauty.