Cabaret
PG · 1972 ‧ Musical/Drama ‧ 2h 4m
In Berlin in 1931, American cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is finishing his university studies. Despite Brian's confusion over his sexuality, the pair become lovers, but the...
Release date: February 13, 1972 (USA)
Director: Bob Fosse
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios and Monogram Pictures
Adapted from: Cabaret, Goodbye to Berlin, and I Am a Camera
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What is the point of the movie Cabaret?
Taking its form from political cabaret, it's a satire of temptations. In a prodigious balancing act, Bob Fosse, the choreographer-director, keeps the period—Berlin, 1931—at a cool distance. We see the decadence as garish and sleazy; yet we also see the animal energy in it—everything seems to become sexualized.
What is Cabaret 1972 about?
In Berlin in 1931, American cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is finishing his university studies. Despite Brian's confusion over his sexuality, the pair become lovers, but the arrival of the wealthy and decadent playboy Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem) complicates matters for them both. This love triangle plays out against the rise of the Nazi party and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.
Cabaret / Film synopsis
What is the plot of Cabaret?
Set in a seedy cabaret called the Kit Kat Klub in 1929–30, the innovative musical tells the story of two doomed romances set against the emergence of anti-Semitism and fascism in Germany.
What is the message of Cabaret?
The musical numbers performed by the Emcee revel in the decadence that serves as a metaphor for the political decline of the Weimar Republic, and the rise of the Nazi Party, which, in a few years' time, would be closing down establishments like the Kit Kat Klub and burning "un-German books" in the streets of Berlin.
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