

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
Acting
Matt Smith's eyebrows do more acting than most performers' entire bodies.
Production
Berlin recreated on a BBC budget—somehow still decadently immersive.
Writing
Isherwood's memoir adapted with wry self-awareness intact.

Director
Geoffrey Sax
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Isherwood originally invented 'Sally Bowles' for his novel; the real Jean Ross was a communist journalist who hated how Cabaret glamorized her.
The film was shot in Belfast standing in for Berlin, with the crew accidentally recreating 1930s queer geography through pure coincidence.
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