Cabaret (1972)

Star Rating: 3 (Liked It)
Length: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Director:Bob Fosse
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Elizabeth Neumann-Viertel, & Helen Vita
Oscars: Bob Fosse (Director), Liza Minnelli (Actress), Joel Grey (Actor in supporting role), Rolf Zehetbauer, Hans Jurgen Kielbach, Herbert Strabel (Art Direction), Geoffrey Unsworth (Photography), David Bretherton (Editing), Ralph Burns (Music), Robert Knudson, David Hildyard (Sound).

Everyone talks about Liza Minnelli and how amazing and  popular she is...especially in the gay community. As a lover of musical theater, I was excited to sit down and watch this movie.

The film starts out as Brian (Michael York) steps off the train to Berlin, Germany in 1931. He meets Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) at their apartment building. Sally works as an American singer at the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret club. Sally becomes VERY interested in Brian, and literally throws herself at him. Liza Minnelli is strikingly beautiful and very charismatic. She sucked me right in! No wonder she has many men fighting for her attention throughout the film; even Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a rich playboy baron. But Maximilian is also attracted to someone else, other than Sally (There are NO gay scenes, it is just mentioned).

When the cast is at the Kit Kat Klub, the props and costumes aren't overly dramatic and not appealing (it lacks in my opinion). The dancers aren't attractive, but I don't think they're supposed to be. I think they were trying to make it as authentic to the time period of the film, but it was really cool to see the world of "Cabaret" in Europe.The following songs were sung in the movie:

1. "Willkommen" (Welcome) - Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey), the Cabaret Girls
2. "Mein Herr" - Sally
3. "Maybe This Time" - Sally
4. "The Money Song" - Master of Ceremonies, Sally
5. "Two Ladies" - Master of Ceremonies, two of the Cabaret Girls
6. "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" - Nazi youth
7. "Tiller Girls" - Master of Ceremonies, the Cabaret Girls
8. "Heiraten (Married)" - Greta Keller
9. "If You Could See Her (The Gorilla Song)" - Master of Ceremonies
10. "Cabaret" - Sally
11. "Finale" - Master of Ceremonies

This film has a lot of surprises that I won't mention, you'll just have to watch and see :)