Michael (1924)
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer
89 minutes
Shot by the great German cinematographers Karl Freund and Rudolph Maté, MICHAEL concerns the unconsummated homosexual love between a painter and his manipulative, larcenous model. The Danish director Benjamin Christensen stars as artist Claude Zoret, modeled in part after Rodin, whose irrepressible love finds its most complete expression in his last painting.