Cabaret / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation and ABC Pictures Corp. present an ABC Pictures Corporation production ; screenplay by Jay Allen ; produced by Cy Feuer ; directed by Bob Fosse.
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FilmPublisher number: 3000046499 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013]Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Masteroff, Joe -- Film adaptations
- Van Druten, John, 1901-1957 -- Film adaptations
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 -- Film adaptations
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Germany -- Drama
- Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Gay men -- Germany -- Berlin -- Drama
- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Drama
- Music by John Kander ; lyrics by Fred Ebb ; dances and musical numbers staged by Bob Fosse.
- Academy Awards, 1973: Best actress (Minnelli), Best supporting actor (Grey), Best director (Fosse), Art direction/set direction, Cinematography, Film editing, Music scoring/adaptation, Sound.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this intertwining of entertainment with social history marked a new step forward for the movie musical. Michael York plays a British writer who comes to Berlin in the early 1930s in hopes of becoming a teacher. He makes the acquaintance of flamboyant American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a George Grosz-like Berlin cabaret where each night the smirking, androgynous Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) introduces a jazz-driven "girlie show" to his debauched audience. Virtually all the film's musical numbers are staged within the confines of the Kit Kat Klub, and each song comments on the plot and on Germany's "progression" from hedonism to Hitlerism. Most of the Broadway score by John Kander and Fred Ebb was retained, with the welcome addition of "The Money Song." Although it lost Best Picture to The Godfather, Cabaret won eight Oscars, including awards to Minnelli, Grey, and Fosse. A heavily expurgated 88-minute version of Cabaret has been prepared for commercial TV presentations, regarded by many as dramatically inferior to the full cut. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital surround.
In English; with optional subtitles in French; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Cataloged from container.
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Joel Grey.
Music by John Kander ; lyrics by Fred Ebb ; dances and musical numbers staged by Bob Fosse.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.
Based on the musical play "Cabaret" ; book by Joe Masteroff ; based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
Wide screen.
MPAA rating: PG.
Academy Awards, 1973: Best actress (Minnelli), Best supporting actor (Grey), Best director (Fosse), Art direction/set direction, Cinematography, Film editing, Music scoring/adaptation, Sound.
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Special features: Commentary by Stephen Tropiano; Behind the scenes featurettes, Cabaret: the musical that changed musicals, Cabaret: a legend in the making, The recreation of an era, Kit Kat Klub memory gallery; theatrical trailer.