Cabaret (1972)

PG02/13/1972Music, Drama, Romance2h 4m
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Life is a Cabaret.

Overview

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Liza Minnelli

    Sally Bowles

  2. Cast 1

    Michael York

    Brian Roberts

  3. Cast 1

    Helmut Griem

    Maximilian von Heune

  4. Cast 1

    Joel Grey

    Master of Ceremonies

  5. Cast 1

    Fritz Wepper

    Fritz Wendel

  6. Cast 1

    Marisa Berenson

    Natalia Landauer

  7. Cast 1

    Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel

    Fräulein Schneider

  8. Cast 1

    Helen Vita

    Fräulein Kost

  9. Cast 1

    Sigrid von Richthofen

    Fräulein Mayr

Set against a backdrop of rising Nazi power in Berlin in the early 1930s, this is a wonderfully colourful and sexually provocative piece of musical cinema that centres around the cabaret in the "Kit Kat Club". Introduced by the outstandingly ambiguous Joel Grey as the Master of Ceremonies, we are introduced to the star attraction - "Miss Sally Bowles" (Liza Minnelli) and for the next two hours we see aspects of their stage entertainment interspersed with her life, and that of her new-found friend "Brian" (Michael York) as they fall in and out of love, of bed - and of bed with their friend "Max...