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Shown: January 1, 2019 at 6pm

Director : Bob Fosse

Country : USA

Release Date : 1972

Duration : 123 mins

Language : English and German

Subtitles : Yes

WINNER : BEST DIRECTOR, ACTRESS AND SUPPORTING ACTOR AT 1973 OSCARS

Adapted from the Broadway show, this hard-hitting musical drama is set in decadent 1930s Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power. The film chronicles the friendship between Cambridge student Brian Roberts (Michael York) with the high-spirited Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), a singer at the sleazy Kit Kat nightclub, where the anti-Semitic Emcee (Joel Grey) sets a tone of debauchery. Fabulous slick direction with highly-memorable songs.

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.”  (Tom Milne – Time Out)


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