A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
- Won 8 Oscars
- 35 wins & 17 nominations total
Sigrid von Richthofen
- Fraulein Mayr
- (as Sigrid Von Richthofen)
Ricky Renée
- Elke
- (as Ricky Renee)
Storyline
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- TriviaEnglish author Christopher Isherwood, who created the character of Sally Bowles for a 1937 novella, enjoyed the attention the movie brought to his career, but he felt Liza Minnelli was far too talented for the role. According to him, Sally Bowles was based upon Jean Ross, a 19-year-old amateur singer and aspiring actress who lived under the delusion that she had star quality, the antithesis of Judy Garland's daughter.
- GoofsWhen Brian thrusts the plate of cake at Sally, the cake slides off the plate and slips down to her lap. In the next shot the cake is up on her chest.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: Berlin 1931
- Alternate versionsIn the film's first telecast, on ABC-TV, all reference to Max's bisexuality was edited out, changing the motivation one of the other characters completely.
Featured review
I'm not entirely sure how I'm supposed to feel about Sally
Liza Minelli is so great in this movie. Sexy as heck. Adventurous, sexually liberated bohemian on the outside, lost little girl with Daddy abandonment issues on the inside. She tries to seduce Michael York by showing him the former, but only succeeds when she unwittingly reveals the latter. I still have lots of questions. We never really get a sense of just how much Sally has lived up to this role she's playing, that is, just how sexually experienced is she, and how much is just talk? She only sleeps with two men as far as we know over the course of the movie.
I do love the scene when the virgin Natalia seeks romantic advice, and we awkwardly witness just how wrong Sally is for this kind of mentorship, suggesting for example, that maybe Natalia and Fritz can just kind of keep it casual, a concept clearly beyond Natalia's comprehension! Then, just after we've completely fallen in love with Sally, she does this ... thing ... acting out of fear as the prospect of domestic bliss in England is becoming too close to reality, something Sally sees more as a prison than an escape. However you lean politically and ethically about this act, in terms of the movie, it's emotionally devastating, especially since she doesn't even inform York in advance.
I'm not entirely sure how we're supposed to feel about Sally after she does it, and I don't know what's going to happen to her as she remains in Berlin just as things are about to get really ugly.
I do love the scene when the virgin Natalia seeks romantic advice, and we awkwardly witness just how wrong Sally is for this kind of mentorship, suggesting for example, that maybe Natalia and Fritz can just kind of keep it casual, a concept clearly beyond Natalia's comprehension! Then, just after we've completely fallen in love with Sally, she does this ... thing ... acting out of fear as the prospect of domestic bliss in England is becoming too close to reality, something Sally sees more as a prison than an escape. However you lean politically and ethically about this act, in terms of the movie, it's emotionally devastating, especially since she doesn't even inform York in advance.
I'm not entirely sure how we're supposed to feel about Sally after she does it, and I don't know what's going to happen to her as she remains in Berlin just as things are about to get really ugly.
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- AlsExGal
- Jan 5, 2023
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Кабаре
- Filming locations
- Berlin, Germany(filmed on location in West Berlin)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $71,576
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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