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Cabaret

7.4

Released February 13, 1972Runtime 2h 4min

Life is a Cabaret.

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.

Genres

Music

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures

ABC Pictures

Bavaria Film

Production Countries

Germany

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $4,600,000
Revenue: $42,800,000
Profit/Loss: $38,200,000

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Cast

Liza MinnelliSally Bowles

Michael YorkBrian Roberts

Helmut GriemMaximilian von Heune

Joel GreyMaster of Ceremonies

Fritz WepperFritz Wendel

Marisa BerensonNatalia Landauer

Elisabeth Neumann-ViertelFräulein Schneider

Helen VitaFräulein Kost

Sigrid von RichthofenFräulein Mayr

Gerd VespermannBobby

Ralf WolterHerr Ludwig

Georg HartmannWilli

Ricky RenéeElke

Estrongo NachamaCantor

Kathryn DobyKit-Kat Dancer

Inge JaegerKit-Kat Dancer

Angelika KochKit-Kat Dancer

Helen VelkovorskaKit-Kat Dancer

Gitta SchmidtKit-Kat Dancer

Louise QuickKit-Kat Dancer

Pierre FranckhNazi with Collecting Box

Ellen UmlaufLady at Party

Oliver CollignonBlonde Boy Singer

Mark LambertHitler Youth Singer

Crew

Bob FosseDirector

Trudy von TrothaScript Supervisor

Joe MasteroffNovel

John Van DrutenTheatre Play

Jay Presson AllenScreenplay

John Van DrutenScreenplay

Joe MasteroffScreenplay

Fred EbbLyricist

Fred EbbWriter

Christopher IsherwoodNovel

Harold NebenzalAssociate Producer

Cy FeuerProducer

Rolf ZehetbauerProduction Designer

John KanderOriginal Music Composer

David BrethertonEditor

Geoffrey UnsworthDirector of Photography

Bob FosseChoreographer

Charlotte FlemmingCostume Design

Hans Jürgen KiebachArt Direction

Lars LooschenStill Photographer

Illo EndrulatMusic Editor

Karola StorrMusic Editor

Robert TracyMusic Editor

John KanderSongs

Herbert StrabelProduction Design

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Reviews

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 i...

by Filipe Manuel Neto

**With qualities and many problems, it is a film that proves that the Oscars do not make films immortal or more significant.** It's hard for me to believe how this film dominated the 1972 Oscar ceremony. That night, it proved to be a devourer of statuettes in a head-to-head duel with “Godfather”...