A silent 1924 German film showing an old painter master as sugar daddy to a young straight male painter. The young artist falls in love at first sight with a nearly destitute countess who asks for a portrait from the master.
The master initially refuses saying he doesn't do requests. But then for some reason he relents, but struggles with the painting. In particular he couldn't do the eyes. His protege tries his hand and paints them, perfectly capturing her eyes. But otherwise things go downhill from there for the master.
I guess the real novelty is a silent film with gay theme. A bit of a brain warp seeing this in pre-WWII German cinema, considering the Nazis were virulently anti-gay Christians [things don't really change] who put gays in concentration camps.
This film perhaps is also at the beginning of a long era of tragic gay film characters.
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