Cabaret (40th Anniversary)

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DVD Features:

Rated: PG
Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Video: Color
Released: February 5, 2013
Originally Released: 1972
Label: Warner Home Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Note: Commentary by Stephen Tropiano

Featurette Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
Vintage Featurettes Cabaret: A Legend in the Making and The Recreation of an Era

Dual Layer
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
Audio:

Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, French

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson & Joel Grey
Performer:		Fritz Wepper
Directed by		Bob Fosse
Edited by		David Bretherton
Music by		John Kander
Screenplay by		Jay Presson Allen
Lyricist:		Fred Ebb
Produced by		Cy Feuer
Director of Photography:		Geoffrey Unsworth

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Actress: Liza Minnelli

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Ralph Burns

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Director: Bob Fosse

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Film Editing

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Sound

Academy Awards 1972 - Best Supporting Actor: Joel Grey

Entertainment Reviews:

Total Film

Aug 1, 2002

Sight and Sound

Jan 1, 2003

New York Times

May 21, 2003

Entertainment Weekly

Jan 11, 2002

TIME Magazine

Aug 12, 2008

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 24, 2004

Empire

Feb 1, 2008

Product Description:

The final shot of the hit film CABARET is a Nazi meeting reflected in a mirror, providing the chilling historical subtext for this groundbreaking musical movie, set in prewar Berlin. Not since GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) had Hollywood produced a more successful film. CABARET was a convention-shattering story that dealt with themes like bisexuality that were still under the radar in the US. Additionally, CABARET made the enormously talented Liza Minnelli an American icon.

Minnelli plays Sally Bowles, an aspiring singer and dancer. The main plot revolves around her relationship with two different men and her life as a singer at the Kit Kat Klub. The film utilizes the traditional conventions of American musical theater while adding in the fiendishly painted Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) who comments on the proceedings through song and dance. Director Bob Fosse showcases the range of his vision as a director of stage and screen, serving as both choreographer and musical director.

Based on the Kander-Ebb musical from John van Druten's play I AM A CAMERA (which, in turn, was derived from Christopher Isherwood's novel GOODBYE
TO BERLIN), CABARET was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won eight,
making it one of the most acclaimed films in movie history.

Plot Synopsis:

Sally Bowles, a singer at the Kit Kat Klub, is an American caught up in the faux-glamour of prewar Berlin. Although Sally giddily ignores the decadence that has begun to permeate every aspect of society, her Jewish friend Natasha cannot; Natasha constantly faces persecution by Nazi authorities, and her lover has entirely hidden his Jewish identity.
But Sally continues to bury herself in her own problems: in addition to the difficulties of sharing her bisexual English lover with a wealthy German homosexual, she keeps getting more and more drawn in by the sleazy and sinister atmosphere of the Kit Kat Klub.

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Production Notes:

Theatrical release: February 13, 1972
CABARET was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
According to the authors of INSIDE OSCAR composers John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the Broadway musical CABARET as a vehicle showcasing their good friend Liza Minnelli. Hal Prince, the producer and director, thought Minnelli too "inexperienced" and gave the role to Jill Haworth instead. The show became the biggest Broadway hit between 1966 and 1967.
When the film of the musical was finally in the making, Liza Minnelli had secured stardom, having just received an Oscar nomination for the 1969 film THE STERILE CUCKOO. Reportedly, Liza's was very excited about the film: "We're trying to show the dirt and decadence and the perverse atmosphere of Berlin when the Nazis came to power...."
When the film of the musical was finally in the making, Liza Minnelli was already a star, having just received an Oscar nomination for the 1969 film THE STERILE CUCKOO. Reportedly, Liza's was very excited about the film: "We're trying to show the dirt and decadence and the perverse atmosphere of Berlin when the Nazis came to power...."