Cabaret (1972) on Netflix

PG19722h 4mDrama Musical

In 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. Brian Roberts, a British student, takes a room in her boarding house as the Nazi Party gains strength.

Netflix4.3/5
IMDb7.8/1064,388 votes
Rotten Tomatoes92%

Trailer

Plot summary

Brian Roberts, a student at Cambridge, comes to Berlin in 1931 and supports himself by teaching English while he completes his studies. He takes a room in an inexpensive boarding house, where he meets Sally Bowles, an American who sings at the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret overseen by its Master of Ceremonies. Sally draws him into her bohemian world and sets out to seduce him, and he tells her that his earlier attempts at relationships with women came to nothing. The two become friends. Among their acquaintances is Fritz Wendel, who hopes to live comfortably as a gigolo, and Natalia Landauer, a Jewish heiress who regards him with contempt. Around them all, the Nazi Party grows stronger.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cabaret (1972)

Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.

When the film was first shown theatrically in West Berlin, censors cut the Hitler Youth singing 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' out of fear it could stir pro-Nazi sympathies; the scene was restored only when the film aired on West German television in 1976.
Shortly before the Academy Awards, Bob Fosse won two Tony Awards for directing and choreographing Pippin, his biggest stage hit; months later he won a Primetime Emmy for Liza Minnelli's special Liza with a Z, becoming the first director to win all three awards in one year.
Bob Fosse was given the choice of using Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies, at studio insistence, or walking away from the production; he backed down on his "It's either me or Joel" threat, but relations between the two stayed cool.
Chief executives Manny Wolf and Marty Baum were reluctant to hire Bob Fosse because his earlier adaptation of Sweet Charity had been a box office failure, and they preferred a more renowned director such as Billy Wilder, Joseph L. Mankiewicz or Gene Kelly.
For her performance as Sally, Liza Minnelli deliberately imitated the film actress Louise Brooks, a flapper icon and sex symbol of the Jazz Age, at the explicit suggestion of her father, the film and stage director Vincente Minnelli.