Minnelli brings the razzle dazzle to a Berlin determined to ignore the gathering storm in this cinematic masterpiece‘Still think you can control them?” Dizzied by their divinely decadent menage à trois in Weimar Berlin, Cabaret-1972-movie-posters/”>cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), shy scholar Brian Roberts (Michael York) and suave aristocrat Baron von Heune (Helmut Griem) linger in a beer garden to watch a creepy blond boy singing Tomorrow Belongs to Me with the entire crowd ecstatically joining in – a satanically catchy and authentic-sounding Nazi marching song, brilliantly pastiched by Cabaret’s writer and composer, John Kander and Fred Ebb.
It is a sensational moment in this addictive movie, based on the stage show Cabaret and Christopher Isherwood’s original stories about prewar Berlin, uniquely choreographed and directed by Bob Fosse and rereleased now for its 50th anniversary.Maybe its views on gender fluidity and consent are confrontationally tactless in 2022 compared
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