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Cabaret (1972)

This famously fabulous movie stars the wonderful Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles, an American cabaret singer in 1930s Berlin. She's full of life and dying to be an actress, romancing any friend-of-a-friend-of-a-producer or director. She "handles the boys" well until she crosses paths with the charming, British Brian Roberts (played by Michael York), a calm, shy Cambridge man who wants to return to England and teach.

As opposites do attract, these two engage in a friendship-turned whirlwind romance and soon they are inseperable. The craziness in their love life reaches its climax when rich playboy Maximilian Von Heune (Helmut Griem)takes over both their lives and their love, while Sally discovers something that will change all of their lives forever.

All the while, two of Brian's English pupils fall in love (Marisa Berenson and Fritz Wepper), but being Jewish stands in their way in Nazi Europe. This is the time of Nazi Germany and while everything is hot and fabulous in the Kit Kat Klub, outside, the world is falling apart. The person tying these two worlds together is the Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) who shifts between the fantasy life of the Kit Kat Klub and the cruel reality of the characters and Germany with song and dance. It's a strong balance between love and pain, joy and sorrow, ectasy and misery.

Cabaret swept the 1972 Oscars with eight wins, including Best Actress (Minnelli), Best Director (Bob Fosse, who also choreographed, the only director to win an Emmy, Tony and Oscar in one year,) and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey).

Written by: V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi

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