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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay was written by Jay Presson Allen and John Van Druten, with music composed by John Kander and Fred Ebb. The cast includes Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, and Fritz Wepper. Cy Feuer produced the film, which was distributed by Monogram Pictures. The narrative is set in Berlin, and the original languages include German, English, Hebrew, and French.
The film has a runtime of 124 minutes and is rated PG. It received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. Other production details include Geoffrey Unsworth as director of photography and David Bretherton as film editor. The movie is associated with the New Hollywood movement.
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Film · TMDB
7.4Inside 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.
Cast
- Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles
- Michael York as Brian Roberts
- Helmut Griem as Maximilian von Heune
- Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies
- Fritz Wepper as Fritz Wendel
- Marisa Berenson as Natalia Landauer
Themes
- berlin, germany
- nazi
- entertainer
- cabaret
- bisexuality
- musical
- based on play or musical
- hitler youth
- fireplace
- based on short story
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
63,304 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Musical
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 8 Oscars. 35 wins & 17 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Bob Fosse
- Screenplay by
- Jay Presson Allen
- Based on
- Cabaret , (1966 musical), by Joe Masteroff I Am a Camera , (1951 play), by John Van Druten Goodbye to Berlin , (1939 novel), by Christopher Isherwood
- Produced by
- Cy Feuer
- Starring
- Liza Minnelli Michael York Helmut Griem Marisa Berenson Joel Grey
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Edited by
- David Bretherton
- Music by
- Score and lyrics: Kander and Ebb Adaptation: Ralph Burns
- Production company
- ABC Pictures Corp.
- Distributed by
- Allied Artists
- Release date
- February 13, 1972 ( 1972-02-13 )
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.6 million
- Box office
- $42.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- French
- Based on
- Cabaret
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- Bob Fosse
- Screenwriter
- John Van Druten
- Composer
- Fred Ebb
- Producer
- Cy Feuer
- Production company
- Monogram Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Narrative location
- Berlin
- Duration
- 122
- FilmAffinity ID
- 307971
- Distribution format
- DVD
- Image
- Liza Minnelli Cabaret 1972 crop.JPG
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- Commons category
- Cabaret (film)
- publication date
- 1973-04-05
- film editor
- David Bretherton
- title
- Cabaret
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- different from
- Cabaret
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- cabaret
- review score
- 80/100
- capital cost
- 4600000
- box office
- 41326446
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Encyclopedic overview
Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen. It is based on the 1966 stage musical by Joe Masteroff (book) and the duo Kander and Ebb (music), which in turn was based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, and Joel Grey. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Director for Fosse, Best Actress for Minnelli, and Best Supporting Actor for Grey. Multiple numbers from the stage score were used for the film, which also featured three other songs by Kander and Ebb, including two written for the adaptation.
In the traditional manner of musical theatre, most major characters in the stage version sing to express their emotions and advance the plot; in the film, however, the musical numbers are almost entirely diegetic and take place inside the club, with the exception of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", which is not performed in the club or by the club characters, but is still diegetic, a nationalistic song sung by a Nazi youth and the German crowd.
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