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Didier Aslan

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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.   Michael was scripted by Dreyer with Fritz Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou (Metropolis, M, etc). It stars the director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan); Walter Slezak (Hitchcock's Lifeboat); Nora Gregor (Renoir's The Rules of the Game); Mady Christians (Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman); and Karl Freund (who also shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed most of Michael too, but left to work on Murnau's The Last Laugh, and Rudolph Maté took over.   The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Carl Th. Dreyer's Michael for the first time ever on Blu-ray, from a new 2K restoration.

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Didier Aslan was born in 1894 in Salonika, Greece. He is known for Michael (1924), Menschen untereinander (1926) and Die Andere (1924).
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Benjamin Christensen in Michael (1924)
Michael
7.1
  • Herzog Monthieu
  • 1924
Erika Glässner and Eduard Rothauser in Menschen untereinander (1926)
Menschen untereinander
6.9
  • Jungmann
  • 1926
Die Andere
  • Von Soria
  • 1924
William Dieterle, Olga Engl, Georg John, Vivian Gibson, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Ernst Krohn, Claire Lotto, Bruno Rahn, and Josef Fenneker in Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast (1926)
Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast
  • Fritz, sein Bruder
  • 1926

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  • William Dieterle, Olga Engl, Georg John, Vivian Gibson, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Ernst Krohn, Claire Lotto, Bruno Rahn, and Josef Fenneker in Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast (1926)
    Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast
    • Fritz, sein Bruder
    • 1926
  • Erika Glässner and Eduard Rothauser in Menschen untereinander (1926)
    Menschen untereinander
    6.9
    • Jungmann
    • 1926
  • Benjamin Christensen in Michael (1924)
    Michael
    7.1
    • Herzog Monthieu
    • 1924
  • Die Andere
    • Von Soria
    • 1924

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    • 1894
    • Salonika, Greece

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    The actor Didier Aslan finished an education at the academy for music and visual arts. Afterwards he made his stage debut in Stuttgart, it followed engagements in Vienna, among others at the Volkstheater.

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