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Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem (View All)
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Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this intertwining of entertainment with social history marked a new step forward for the movie musical. Michael York plays a British writer who comes to Berlin in the early 1930s in hopes of becoming a teacher. He makes the acquaintance of flamboyant American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a George Grosz-like Berlin cabaret where each night the smirking, androgynous Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) introduces a jazz-driven "girlie show" to his debauched audience. Virtually all the film's musical numbers are staged within the confines of the Kit Kat Klub, and each song comments on the plot and on Germany's "progression" from hedonism to Hitlerism. Most of the Broadway score by John Kander and Fred Ebb was retained, with the welcome addition of "The Money Song." Although it lost Best Picture to The Godfather, Cabaret won eight Oscars, including awards to Minnelli, Grey, and Fosse. A heavily expurgated 88-minute version of Cabaret has been prepared for commercial TV presentations, regarded by many as dramatically inferior to the full cut. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
1/31/72
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
124 mins.
Locations
- Berlin, Germany
Language
- English
Awards
- Winner of the Best Art Direction award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Musical or Comedy award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Song award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Soundtrack award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1972 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Art Direction award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1972 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1972 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1972 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a New Star of the Year - Female award at the 1972 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1972 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1972 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Adaptation and Original Song Score award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the U.S. National Film Registry award at the 1994 Library of Congress [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1972 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- Allied Artists
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
