Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Benjamin Christensen, Dider Aslan, Alexander Murski, Grete Moshem, Karl Freund. Based on the novel by Herman Bang. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1924. Special features: Audio commentary by Danish film scholar Casper Tybjerg ; Dreyer: a compete filmography.
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, many believe the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany.
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