Michael
1924 · 95 min · DE
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Dreyer, UFA, 1924, from Herman Bang. An aging painter, Claude Zoret (Benjamin Christensen), loves his model and adopted son Michael (Walter Slezak); a princess takes the boy away. Karl Freund photographed the studios and the sale of the pictures. Christensen, who had just made Häxan, plays the artist as a man who keeps working after the room empties. Weimar will file it with other queer melodramas; Dreyer shoots it as a household losing its center. Bang's novel is the source, not a hint.
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