Cabaret
Life is a Cabaret.
1972 • 124 min • Music · Romance · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 16- 50 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 74 Audience · 998 · 49%
Amidst the vibrant, decadent nightlife of 1931 Berlin, a spirited cabaret performer and an English writer navigate their complex lives. Outside the club, the rising Nazi party casts a long, ominous shadow, changing their world forever.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 6/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 6/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Sexual content and themes
- Heavy alcohol and smoking
- Political intolerance and persecution
What it models well
- The importance of individual freedom
- Resisting societal pressures
- The power of art and self-expression
Talk about it after
- The historical context of pre-WWII Germany
- How societies can change rapidly
- The choices people make during difficult times
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Trailers & clips
Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli Welcome You To Cabaret | TCM
John Landis on CABARET
Greg Dyke introduces Cabaret (1972) | BFI Screen Epiphanies
Cabaret Wins Film Editing: 1973 Oscars
Limelight and Cabaret Win Music Awards: 1973 Oscars
Cabaret Wins Art Direction: 1973 Oscars
Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviewer notes
Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers**With qualities and many problems, it is a film that proves that the Oscars do not make films immortal or more significant.** It's hard for me to believe how this film dominated the 1972 Oscar ceremony.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersSet against a backdrop of rising Nazi power in Berlin in the early 1930s, this is a wonderfully colourful and sexually provocative piece of musical cinema that centres around the cabaret in the "Kit Kat Club".…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.4/10 (998)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4,600,000
- Box office
- $42,800,000
- IMDb
- tt0068327