Details

Other Title:

Original title: Mikaël [videorecording]

Subjects:

Bang, Herman, 1857-1912 -- Film adaptations.
Gay men -- Germany -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Motion pictures, German.
Silent films.
Romance films.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles.

System Details:

DVD - NTSC.

Summary:

A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany.

Participant:

Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen, Dider Aslan, Alexander Murski, Grete Moshem, Karl Freund.

Credits:

Cinematographer, Karl Freund, Rudolph Maté ; produced for video by David Shepard ; original music, Neal Kurz.

Notes:

Special features: audio commentary by Danish film scholar Casper Tybjerg ; Dreyer: a compete filmography.
Videodisc release of the 1924 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Herman Bang.

Contributor:

Dreyer, Carl Theodor, 1889-1968 , Director, Screenwriter
Harbou, Thea von, 1888-1954 , Screenwriter
Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966. , Producer
Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983. , Actor
Freund, Karl, 1890-1969 , Actor
Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959. , Actor
Grégor, Nora, 1901-1949. , Actor
Shepard, David. , Producer
Kurz, Neal. , Composer
Tybjerg, Casper. , Commentator
Bang, Herman, 1857-1912. , Author
UFA (Firm). , Producer
Kino International Corporation. , Distributor

Related Work:

Bang, Herman, 1857-1912., Author Mikaël.

OCLC:

57443435

Publisher Number:

738329038922
K389 Kino International Corp.