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.
Direction
Fosse's editing cuts like a switchblade through a feather boa.
Acting
Joel Grey's MC: pure uncanny valley before it existed.
Score
Every number a Trojan horse—catchy until it isn't.
Director
Bob Fosse
Liza Minnelli
Sally Bowles
Michael York
Brian Roberts
Helmut Griem
Maximilian von Heune
Joel Grey
Master of Ceremonies
Fritz Wepper
Fritz Wendel
Marisa Berenson
Natalia Landauer
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Fräulein Schneider
Helen Vita
Fräulein Kost
Sigrid von Richthofen
Fräulein Mayr
Ralf Wolter
Herr Ludwig
Kathryn Doby
Kit-Kat Dancer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Liza Minnelli insisted on doing her own makeup, creating Sally's iconic look from her mother's old MGM supplies.
The 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' scene was so convincingly performed that some audiences thought it was genuine Nazi propaganda, not satire.
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