Rotten
Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
Overview
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Director and cast
- Bob Fosse Director
- Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles
- Michael York as Brian Roberts
- Helmut Griem as Maximilian von Heune
- Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies
- Fritz Wepper as Fritz Wendel
- Marisa Berenson as Natalia Landauer
- Oliver Collignon as Blonde Boy Singer
- Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Fräulein Schneider
- Helen Vita as Fräulein Kost
- Sigrid von Richthofen as Fräulein Mayr
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The screenplay, which never seems to talk down to an audience while at the same time making its candid points with tasteful emphasis, returns the story to a variety of settings.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
...the context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Everybody in Cabaret is very fine, and meticulously chosen for type, down to the last weary transvestite and to the least of the bland, blond open-faced Nazis in the background.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
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