Cabaret (1972)
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Critic Consensus: Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic.
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Cast
as Sally Bowles
as Master of Ceremonies
as Brian Roberts
as Natalia Landauer
as Maximilian von Heune
as Fritz Wendel
as Fraulein Schneider
as Fraulein Maur
as Willi
as Fraulein Kost
as Bobby
as Herr Ludwig
as Willi
as Elke
as Cantor
as Kit-Kat Dancer
as Kit-Kat Dancer
as Kit-Kat Dancer
as Kit-Kat Dancer
as Kit-Kat Dancer
as Kit-Kat Dancer
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Critic Reviews for Cabaret
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Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style.
The screenplay, which never seems to talk down to an audience while at the same time making its candid points with tasteful emphasis, returns the story to a variety of settings.
Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be.
Superbly choreographed by Fosse, the cabaret numbers evoke the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of champagne and Nazi propaganda - so vividly that only an idiot could fail to perceive that something is rotten in the state of Weimar.
...the context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair.
Everybody in Cabaret is very fine, and meticulously chosen for type, down to the last weary transvestite and to the least of the bland, blond open-faced Nazis in the background.
Audience Reviews for Cabaret
Liza Minnelli is fabulous and deserved the Oscar she won for her role in this delightful musical that offers great performances from the rest of the cast and keeps us always conscious of an inevitable darkness that lurks in the shadows to stand in the way of the characters' success.
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Liza Minelli plays an annoying cabaret singer who turns a gay guy straight, gets pregnant (possibly by him, possibly by one of the other guys she was sleeping with) and then has an abortion. All while under the backdrop of a burgeoning nazi germany. Liza performs the title song well, but the bulk of the film is largely uninteresting.
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Incredibly immersive. The most upbeat, quirky tragedy around.
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Cabaret Quotes
| Sally Bowles: | Come to the Cabaret old bum, come the the Cabaret. |
| Sally Bowles: | Are you AC/DC Brian? The economy is in shambles, let's be bourgeoisie and decadent. |
| Brian Roberts: | Listen Sally, I swing both ways. |
| Sally Bowles: | My beloved wife, remember the filthy moments we had before marriage! |