Actors - Cabaret

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Cabaret is a 1972 film. It was directed by Bob Fosse and it stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic prior to the coming to power of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

It is based loosely on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was in turn based in part on the Berlin stories of Christopher Isherwood.

The film is largely made in low light and has a film noir feel, although it was filmed in color.

Story line

Sally Bowles is an American singer at the Kit Kat night club in early 1930s Berlin. A new tenant, Brian, moves into a room in Sally's apartment building. A reserved English academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his German studies. She unsuccessfully tries to seduce him and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells her that he has indeed tried to have romantic relationships with women, but his three previous sexual partners left him underwhelmed with his own skills and sex in general. They become friends, and Brian is witness to Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. The violence of the Nazis' rise to power is repeatedly present but always only glimpsed in moments throughout the film.

The songs are nearly all performances at the Kit Kat club and often have an overtly sexual content. They also frequently allude to the narrative of the film itself.

Despite her earlier reservations, Sally and Brian eventually become lovers, and Brian concludes that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls".

A rich playboy, Max, befriends and seduces them both, but then abandons them, leaving Sally pregnant but unsure who the father is. Brian offers to marry her and take her back to his university life in Cambridge. Sally realizes she could never lead such a quiet academic life and goes ahead with a planned abortion. The film ends with Brian departing for England by train, and Sally continuing her life in Berlin. The club's master of ceremonies is seen only in his stage persona, but provides repeated knowing looks to the camera that the party is about to end.

A subplot concerns a Jewish man, who had been passing as a Christian, who falls for and marries a wealthy Jewish heiress. We are left wondering what their fate will be.

The Score

Wilkommen - performed by the Emcee and the Cabaret Girls
Mein Herr - performed by Sally Bowles
Two Ladies - performed by the Emcee and the Cabaret Girls
Maybe This Time - performed by Sally Bowles
Tiller Girls - performed by the Emcee and the Cabaret Girls
Money, Money - performed by the Emcee and Sally Bowles
If You Could See Her - performed by the Emcee
Tomorrow Belongs To Me - performed by one of the Hitler Youth
(Life is a) Cabaret - performed by Sally Bowles

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Actors - Cabaret

Story line

The Score

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