麦克尔

英俊青年麦克尔（Walter Slezak 饰）是画家苏莱特的专属模特，以麦克尔为原型，苏莱特创作出了精美的艺术作品，名声大噪，登门求画的人络绎不绝，但苏莱特为了保存和麦克尔的美好回忆拒绝出卖杰作。年轻貌美的女伯爵拜访苏莱特，请求后者为自己画像，麦克尔默默注视着女伯爵，四目交投之下，情意暗生，苏莱特思量之后决定为女伯爵作画，但创作不久因苏莱特无法描画女伯爵的眼睛而陷入停滞，麦克尔提笔代劳，女伯爵美丽的神色跃然画上……麦克尔与女伯爵相爱并逐渐离苏莱特而去，苏莱特承受着年青人的欺骗和背叛，将内心的悲苦呈现在画作上，受孤独煎熬的生命之火渐渐熄灭…… 　　本片根据赫曼·邦的同名小说改编，是电影史上最早涉及同性恋题材的作品之一。Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Then Mikaël takes up with the Princess Zamikoff, selling gifts from Zoret and even stealing from the master to pay for his carnal and luxurious life with her. He abandons Zoret, whose health begins to fail but who also discovers spirituality in his solitude. In a subplot, Alice Adelsskjold cuckolds her husband and takes a lover, the Duke of Monthieu; their relationship, infused with the eroticism of art, also gives way to religion as the duke becomes ill.