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Cabaret is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bob Fosse released in USA on 13 february 1972 with Liza Minnelli
Cabaret (1972)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 february 1972
Length 2h4
Directed by Bob Fosse
OriginUSA
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating77%
Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing Nazi Party.
The film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was adapted from the novel The Berlin Stories (1939) by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 play I Am a Camera adapted from the same book. Only a few numbers from the stage score were used for the film; Kander and Ebb wrote new ones to replace those that were discarded. In the traditional manner of musical theater, every significant character in the stage version sings to express his/her own emotion and to advance the plot. In the film version, the musical numbers are entirely diegetic, taking place inside the club, with one exception ("Tomorrow Belongs to Me"), the only song not sung by either the Emcee and/or Sally. In the sexually charged "Two Ladies", about menage-a-trois, the emcee is joined by two of the Kit Kat girls, who sing part of the song.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Director for Bob Fosse, Best Actress for Liza Minnelli, Best Supporting Actor for Joel Grey, and five more technical awards.
Synopsis
In 1931 Berlin, young American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate. Sally tries seducing Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three previous occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations; they conclude that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls".Actors
Liza Minnelli
(Sally Bowles)
Michael York
(Brian Roberts)
Joel Grey
(Master of Ceremonies)
Helmut Griem
(Maximilian von Heune)
Fritz Wepper
(Fritz Wendel)
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