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{{Short description|1972 American musical film by Bob Fosse}}
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{{Infobox film
| image          = Original movie poster for Cabaret.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Bob Fosse]]
| screenplay     = [[Jay Presson Allen|Jay Allen]]
| based_on       = {{ubl|{{Based on|''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]''|[[John Kander]]|[[Fred Ebb]]|[[Joe Masteroff]]}}|{{Based on|''[[I Am a Camera]]''|[[John Van Druten]]}}|{{Based on|''[[Goodbye to Berlin]]''|[[Christopher Isherwood]]}}}}
| producer       = [[Cy Feuer]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Liza Minnelli]]
* [[Michael York]]
* [[Helmut Griem]]
* [[Marisa Berenson]]
* [[Joel Grey]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Geoffrey Unsworth]]
| editing        = [[David Bretherton]]
| music          = [[Ralph Burns]]
| studio         = [[ABC Pictures|ABC Pictures Corp.]]
| distributor    = [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1972|2|13}}
| runtime        = 124 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $4.6&nbsp;million<ref name="Beaupre 1973"/>
| gross          = $42.8&nbsp;million<ref name="Box Office"/>
}}

'''''Cabaret''''' is a 1972 American [[Musical film|musical]] [[Historical drama|period drama]] film directed by [[Bob Fosse]] from a screenplay by [[Jay Presson Allen|Jay Allen]], based on the stage musical [[Cabaret (musical)|of the same name]] by [[John Kander]], [[Fred Ebb]], and [[Joe Masteroff]],<ref name="Variety 1971"/> which in turn was based on the 1951 play ''[[I Am a Camera]]'' by [[John Van Druten]] and the 1939 novel ''[[Goodbye to Berlin]]'' by [[Christopher Isherwood]].<ref name="Variety 1971"/>{{sfn|Belletto|2008|p=609}}  It stars [[Liza Minnelli]], [[Michael York]], [[Helmut Griem]], [[Marisa Berenson]], and [[Joel Grey]]. Multiple numbers from the stage score were used for the film, which also featured three other songs by Kander and Ebb, including two written for the adaptation.<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/><ref name="TCM Notes"/>

In the traditional manner of musical theater, most major characters in the stage version sing to express their emotions and advance the plot; in the film, however, the musical numbers are almost entirely [[Diegesis|diegetic]] and take place inside the club,<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/>{{sfn|Belletto|2008|p=609}} with the exception of "[[Tomorrow Belongs to Me]]", the only song sung by neither the Master of Ceremonies nor [[Sally Bowles]] but which could not be dispensed with as was far too important to the plot.<ref name="Benedict 2002"/>

''Cabaret'' was released in the United States on February 13, 1972, by [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]. The film received critical acclaim and eventually earned more than $42 million in the box office against a production budget of $4.6 million.<ref name="Box Office"/><ref name="Greenspun 1972"/><ref name="Ebert 1972"/><ref name="Variety 1971"/><ref name="Kael 1972"/> It won Best Picture citations from the [[National Board of Review]] and the [[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]], and took Best Supporting Actor honors for Grey from the National Board of Review, the Hollywood Foreign Press, and the [[National Society of Film Critics]]. At the [[45th Academy Awards]], the film won for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] (Fosse), [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] (Minnelli), [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] (Grey), [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]], [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Song Score and Adaptation]], [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]], and [[Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing|Best Sound]], holding the [[List of Academy Award records#Film records|record for most Oscars earned by a film not honored for Best Picture]]. In 1995, ''Cabaret'' was the twelfth [[Live action|live-action]] musical film selected by the [[Library of Congress]] for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="National Film Registry"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cinematic Legends Take Their Place in National Film Registry|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-01-04-9601040275-story.html|last=Liebenson|first=Donald|website=chicagotribune.com|date=January 4, 1996 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref>

== Plot ==
In 1931 [[Berlin]], a young, openly promiscuous American [[Sally Bowles]] performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the [[boarding house]] where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian must give English lessons to earn a living while completing his [[doctorate]]. Sally tries to seduce Brian, but he tells her that on three previous occasions he has tried to have sexual relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's [[bohemian life]] in the last days of the [[Weimar Republic]]. When Brian consoles Sally after her father cancels his meeting with her, they become lovers, concluding that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls".

Maximilian von Heune, a rich, married playboy and [[baron]], befriends Sally and takes her and Brian to his country estate where they are both spoiled and courted. After a somewhat enigmatic experience with Brian, Max drops his pursuit of the pair in haste. During an argument, Sally tells Brian that she has been having sex with Max, and Brian reveals that he has as well. Brian and Sally later reconcile, and Sally reveals that Max left them 300 [[Reichsmark|marks]] and mockingly compares the sum with what a professional prostitute earns.

Sally learns that she is pregnant but is unsure of the father. Brian offers to marry her and take her back to his university life in [[Cambridge]]. At first, they celebrate their resolution to start this new life together, but after a picnic between Sally and Brian, in which Brian acts distant and uninterested, Sally becomes disheartened by the vision of herself as a bored faculty wife washing dirty diapers. Ultimately, she has an abortion, without informing Brian in advance. When he confronts her, she shares her fears, and the two reach an understanding. Brian departs for England, and Sally continues her life in Berlin, embedding herself in the Kit Kat Klub.
 
Meanwhile, Fritz Wendel, a [[History of the Jews in Germany|German Jew]] [[Passing (racial identity)|passing]] as a Protestant, is in love with Natalia Landauer, a wealthy German Jewish heiress who holds him in contempt and suspects his motives. Through Brian, Sally advises him to be more aggressive, which eventually enables Fritz to win her love. However, to gain her parents' consent for their marriage, Fritz must reveal his background, which he does and the two are married by a rabbi.

== Cast ==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Liza Minnelli]] as [[Sally Bowles]]
* [[Michael York]] as Brian Roberts
* [[Helmut Griem]] as Baron Maximilian von Heune
* [[Joel Grey]] as the master of ceremonies
* [[Fritz Wepper]] as Fritz Wendel
* [[Marisa Berenson]] as Natalia Landauer
* [[Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel]] as Fräulein Schneider
* [[Helen Vita]] as Fräulein Kost
* {{ill|Sigrid von Richthofen|de}} as Fräulein Mayr
* [[Gerd Vespermann]] as Bobby
* [[Ralf Wolter]] as Herr Ludwig
* [[Ricky Renée]] as Elke
* {{ill|Estrongo Nachama|de}} as the [[Hazzan|cantor]]
* [[Kathryn Doby]], Inge Jaeger, Angelika Koch, Helen Velkovorska, Gitta Schmidt and Louise Quick as the Kit Kat Klub dancers
* Oliver Collignon as the [[Hitler Youth]] singer (uncredited)
** [[Mark Lambert (American actor)|Mark Lambert]] as the singing voice of the Hitler Youth singer (uncredited)<ref name="TCM Notes"/>
* [[Pierre Franckh]] as a Nazi (uncredited)
}}

== Historical basis ==
{{Further|Christopher Isherwood|Jean Ross}}
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The 1972 film was based upon Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical stories about [[Weimar culture|Weimar-era Berlin]] during the [[Jazz Age]].{{r|Doyle 2013|Moss 1979}} In 1929, Isherwood moved to Berlin  in order to pursue life as an openly gay man and to enjoy the city's libertine nightlife.{{r|Doyle 2013|Moss 1979}} His [[Auden Group|expatriate social circle]] included [[W.H. Auden]], [[Stephen Spender]], [[Paul Bowles]], and [[Jean Ross]].{{r|Spender 1977|Spender 1966}} While in Berlin, Isherwood shared lodgings with Ross, a British cabaret singer and aspiring film actress from a wealthy Anglo-Scottish family.{{r|Frost 2013|Parker 2004}}

While rooming together at [[Nollendorfplatz|Nollendorfstrasse 17]] in [[Schöneberg]],{{r|Frost 2013|Parker 2004}} Isherwood and Ross met John Blomshield, a wealthy playboy who inspired the film character of Baron Maximilian von Heune.{{r|Fryer 1993|MacLean 2014}} Blomshield sexually pursued both Isherwood and Ross for a short while, and he invited them to accompany him on a trip abroad. He then abruptly disappeared without saying goodbye.<ref name="Blomshield">{{harvnb|Isherwood|1976|p=84}}: "... the American thrilled them by inviting them to come with him to the States and then dashed their hopes by leaving Berlin abruptly, without saying goodbye."</ref>{{r|Fryer 1993|MacLean 2014}}

Following Blomshield's disappearance, Ross became pregnant with the child of jazz pianist and later actor [[Peter van Eyck]].{{r|Parker 2005|Parker 2004}} After Eyck abandoned Ross, she underwent a near-fatal abortion facilitated by Isherwood who pretended to be her heterosexual impregnator.{{r|Parker 2005|Parker 2004|Thomson 2005|Lehmann 1987}}

While Ross recovered from the botched abortion procedure,{{r|Parker 2005}} the political situation [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power|rapidly deteriorated]] in Germany.{{r|Spender 1966}} As Berlin's daily scenes featured "poverty, unemployment, political demonstrations and street fighting between the forces of the [[Communist Party of Germany|extreme left]] and the [[Nazi Party|extreme right]],"{{r|Spender 1977}} Isherwood, Spender, and other British nationals realized that they must flee the country.{{r|Spender 1966}} "There was a sensation of doom to be felt in the Berlin streets," Spender recalled.{{r|Spender 1966}}

By the time [[Adolf Hitler]] implemented the [[Enabling Act of 1933]] which cemented his dictatorship, Isherwood, Ross, Spender, and others had fled Germany and returned to England.<ref>{{harvnb|Parker|2005|p=221}}: "Isherwood recognized that he could not remain in Berlin much longer and on April 5, the day measures were brought in to ban Jews from the teaching professions and the Civil Service, he arrived back in London, bringing with him many of his possessions."</ref>{{r|Frost 2013|Parker 2004}} Many of the Berlin cabaret denizens befriended by Isherwood would later flee abroad{{r|Isherwood 1976|pp=164–166}} or perish in [[concentration camp]]s.{{r|Isherwood 1976|pp=150, 297}}{{r|Farina 2013|pp=74–81}} These factual events served as the genesis for Isherwood's 1937 novella ''Sally Bowles'' which was later adapted into the 1955 film ''[[I Am a Camera (film)|I Am a Camera]]'' and the [[Cabaret (musical)|1966 ''Cabaret'' musical]].{{r|Lehmann 1987|Izzo 2005}}

== Production ==

=== Pre-production ===
In July 1968, [[Cinerama]] made a verbal agreement to make a film version of the 1966 Broadway musical but pulled out in February 1969.<ref name="TCM Notes"/><ref name="Variety 1969"/><ref name="AFI"/> In May 1969, [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]] paid a company record $1.5 million for the film rights and planned a company record budget.<ref name="TCM Notes"/><ref name="Variety 1969"/><ref name="AFI"/> The cost of $4,570,000 was split evenly with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Pictures]].<ref name="TCM Notes"/><ref name="AFI"/><ref name="Beaupre 1973"/>
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In 1971, [[Bob Fosse]] learned through [[Harold Prince]], director of the original Broadway production, that [[Cy Feuer]] was producing a film adaptation of ''Cabaret'' through ABC Pictures and Allied Artists.<ref name="TCM Notes"/> This was the first film produced in the revival of Allied Artists. Determined to direct the film, Fosse begged Feuer to hire him.<ref name="TCM Notes"/> However, Fosse had previously directed the unsuccessful film adaptation of ''Sweet Charity'', a box office failure which made chief executives Manny Wolf and [[Martin Baum (agent)|Marty Baum]] reluctant to hire him.<ref name="TCM Notes"/> Wolf and Baum preferred a more renowned or established director such as [[Billy Wilder]], [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] or [[Gene Kelly]].<ref name="TCM Notes"/>{{r|Garebian 2011|p=134}}

Eager to hire Fosse, Feuer appealed to the studio heads, citing Fosse's talent for staging and shooting musical numbers, adding that if inordinate attention was given to filming the book scenes at the expense of the musical numbers, the whole film could fail. Fosse ultimately was hired. Over the next months, Fosse met with previously hired screenwriter Jay Presson Allen to discuss the screenplay.{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=136-139}}

=== Screenplay revisions ===
As production neared, Fosse became increasingly dissatisfied with Allen's script which was based on [[Joe Masteroff]]'s original book of the stage version. Fosse hired [[Hugh Wheeler]] to rewrite and revise Allen's work.{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=136-139}} Wheeler was referred to as a "research consultant," and Allen retained screenwriting credit. Wheeler, a friend of Christopher Isherwood,<ref name="Day 1974"/> knew that Isherwood had been critical of the stage musical due to its bowdlerizations of his material.<ref name="Day 1974"/> Wheeler went back to Isherwood's original stories in order to ensure a more faithful adaptation of the source material. In particular, Wheeler restored the subplot about the gigolo and the Jewish heiress. Wheeler also drew on gay author Christopher Isherwood's openness about his homosexuality to make the leading male character a bisexual man "rather than the heterosexual as he had been in the stage musical."{{r|Garebian 2011|p=139}}

Fosse decided to increase the focus on the Kit Kat Klub, where Sally performs, as a metaphor for the decadence of Germany in the 1930s by eliminating all but one of the musical numbers performed outside the club. The only remaining outside number is "Tomorrow Belongs to Me",<ref name="Benedict 2002"/> a folk song rendered spontaneously by patrons at an [[Beer garden|open-air café]] in one of the film's most effective scenes.{{sfn|Belletto|2008|p=609}} In addition, the show's original songwriters Kander and Ebb wrote two new songs, "Mein Herr" and "Money", and incorporated "Maybe This Time", a song they had composed in 1964 and first sung by [[Kaye Ballard]].<ref name="Schudel 2019"/>

=== Casting ===
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Feuer had cast [[Liza Minnelli]] as [[Sally Bowles]] and [[Joel Grey]] (reprising his stage role) long before Fosse was attached to the project. Fosse was given the choice of using Grey as Master of Ceremonies or walking away from the production.{{r|Garebian 2011|p=147-148}} Fosse hired [[Michael York]] as Sally Bowles's bisexual love interest, a casting choice which Minnelli initially believed was incorrect until she performed with him.{{r|Garebian 2011|p=146}} Several smaller roles, as well as the remaining four dancers in the film, eventually were cast in West Germany.

Minnelli had auditioned to play Sally in the original Broadway production but was deemed too inexperienced at the time, even though she had won Broadway's [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical]]. By the time ''Cabaret'' reached the screen, however, Minnelli was a film star having earned an Oscar nomination as the emotionally damaged college student in ''[[The Sterile Cuckoo]]'' (1969).

For her performance as Sally in the film, Minnelli reinterpreted the character and—at the explicit suggestion of her father, film and [[Theatre director|stage director]] [[Vincente Minnelli]]<ref name="Minnelli 2006"/>—she deliberately imitated film actress [[Louise Brooks]], a [[flapper|flapper icon]] and [[sex symbol]] of the [[Jazz Age]].<ref name="Minnelli 2006"/>{{r|Garebian 2011|p=142}} Brooks, much like the character of Sally Bowles in the film, was an aspiring actress and American [[Expatriate|expat]] who temporarily moved to Weimar Berlin in search of international stardom.{{r|Garebian 2011|p=139}} Minnelli later recalled:

{{Blockquote|"I went to my father and asked him, 'What can you tell me about 1930s glamour? Should I be emulating [[Marlene Dietrich]] or something?' And he said 'No, study everything you can about [[Louise Brooks]].'"<ref name="Minnelli 2006"/>}}

In particular, Minnelli drew upon Brooks' "[[Pandora's Box (1929 film)|Lulu makeup]] and [[Shingle bob|helmet-like coiffure]]."{{r|Garebian 2011|p=142}} For the meeting between Sally Bowles and Brian Roberts, Minnelli modeled her movements and demeanor upon Brooks; in particular, the scene in ''[[Pandora's Box (1929 film)|Pandora's Box]]'' (1929) where Brooks' carefree character of Lulu is first introduced.<ref name="Garebian 2011"/> Ultimately, Minnelli would win the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her portrayal of Sally Bowles.<ref name="Buck 1973"/>

=== Filming ===
Fosse and Feuer traveled to West Germany, where producers chose to shoot the film, in order to finish assembling the film crew. During this time, Fosse highly recommended [[Robert Surtees (cinematographer)|Robert L. Surtees]] for cinematographer, but Feuer and the top executives saw Surtees's work on ''Sweet Charity'' as one of the film's many artistic problems. Producers eventually chose British cinematographer [[Geoffrey Unsworth]].{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=138, 149}} Designers [[Rolf Zehetbauer]], [[Hans Jürgen Kiebach]] and [[Herbert Strabel]] served as production designers. Charlotte Flemming designed costumes.{{r|Garebian 2011|p=205}} Dancers [[Kathryn Doby]], Louise Quick and John Sharpe were brought on as Fosse's dance aides.

Rehearsals and filming took place entirely in West Germany. For reasons of economy, indoor scenes were shot at the [[Bavaria Studios|Bavaria Film Studios]] in [[Grünwald, Bavaria|Grünwald]],{{r|Garebian 2011|p=143}} outside Munich.<ref name="TCM Notes"/>{{r|Garebian 2011|p=146}} Prior to filming, Fosse would complain every afternoon on the set of ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]'' because that film was overrunning and keeping him from starting work on the same stage.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Aguiar |first1=Annabel |title='Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' at 50: The tender yet terrifying movie that never lost its flavor |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/06/29/willy-wonka-chocolate-factory-anniversary/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=June 29, 2021}}</ref>

=== Narrative and news reading ===
Although the songs throughout the film allude to and advance the narrative, every song except "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is executed in the context of a Kit Kat Klub performance.<ref name="Russell 2002"/><ref name="Benedict 2002"/> The voice heard on the radio reading the news throughout the film in German was that of associate producer Harold Nebenzal, whose father [[Seymour Nebenzahl]] produced such notable [[Weimar]] films as ''[[M (1931 film)|M]]'' (1931), ''[[Testament of Dr. Mabuse]]'' (1933), and ''[[Threepenny Opera (film)|Threepenny Opera]]'' (1931).

== Differences between film and stage version ==
The film significantly differs from the Broadway musical. In the stage version, Sally is English (as she was in Isherwood's ''[[Goodbye to Berlin]]''). In the film adaptation, she is American.<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/> Cliff Bradshaw was renamed Brian Roberts and made British (as was Isherwood, upon whom the character was based), rather than American as in the stage version.<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/>{{r|Garebian 2011|p=139}} The characters and plotlines involving Fritz, Natalia and Max were pulled from ''[[I Am a Camera]]'' and did not appear in the stage production of ''Cabaret'' (or in ''Goodbye to Berlin'').<ref name="Day 1974"/>

The most significant change involves the excision of the two main characters: Fraulein Schneider, who runs a boarding house, and her love interest, Herr Schultz, a German grocer.{{r|Garebian 2011|p=34}} Their doomed romance plot, and the consequences of a Gentile falling in love with a Jew during the rise of antisemitism, was cut. With the removals were "So What?" and "What Would You Do", sung by Schneider, the song "Meeskite", sung by Schultz,{{r|Garebian 2011|p=83}} and their two duets "It Couldn't Please Me More (The Pineapple Song)" (cut) and "Married" (reset as a piano instrumental, and a phonograph record), as well as a short reprise of "Married", sung alone by Schultz.<ref name="Internet Broadway Database"/>{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=34, 83}}

Kander and Ebb wrote several new songs and removed others.<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/><ref name="TCM Notes"/> "Don't Tell Mama" was replaced by "Mein Herr",{{r|Garebian 2011|p=143}} and "The Money Song" (retained in an instrumental version as "Sitting Pretty") was replaced by "Money, Money."{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=141-43}} "Mein Herr" and "Money, Money", which were composed for the film, were integrated into the stage musical alongside the original numbers.{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=141-43}} The song "[[Maybe This Time (song)|Maybe This Time]]", which Sally performs at the cabaret, was not written for the film,{{r|Garebian 2011|pp=141-43}} but was intended for actress [[Kaye Ballard]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/568793/Actress-comedian-sings-her-song---36-years-after-losing-it-to-Streisand.html|title=Actress-comedian sings her song – 36 years after losing it to Streisand|date=June 27, 1997|work=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=December 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz|last1=Kander|first1=John|author-link1=John Kander|last2=Ebb|first2=Fred|author-link2=Fred Ebb|last3=Lawrence|first3=Greg|date=September 9, 2004|publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]|isbn=978-0571211692}}</ref> Although "Don't Tell Mama" and "Married" were removed as performed musical numbers, both still appear in the film: "Mama"'s bridge section appears as an instrumental played on Sally's gramophone; "Married" initially plays on the piano in Fraulein Schneider's parlor, and later heard on Sally's gramophone in a German translation ("Heiraten") sung by cabaret singer [[Greta Keller]].{{r|Garebian 2011|p=155}} Additionally, "[[If You Could See Her]]", performed by the MC, originally concluded with the line "She isn't a meeskite at all" onstage. The film changes this to "She wouldn't look Jewish at all," a return to Ebb's original lyrics.<ref name="Belletto 2008 609–630">{{harvnb|Belletto|2008|pp=609–630}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Track listing
| headline = ''Cabaret: Original Soundtrack Recording''<ref name="Cabaret Soundtrack"/><ref name="Original Recording"/>
| total_length = 38:14
| all_writing = [[Kander and Ebb|John Kander and Fred Ebb]]
| extra_column = Performer
| title1 = [[Willkommen]]
| extra1 = [[Joel Grey]]
| length1 = 4:29
| title2 = Mein Herr
| extra2 = [[Liza Minnelli]]
| length2 = 3:36
| title3 = [[Maybe This Time (song)|Maybe This Time]]
| extra3 = Liza Minnelli
| length3 = 3:11
| title4 = Money, Money
| extra4 = Joel Grey, Liza Minnelli
| length4 = 3:04
| title5 = Two Ladies
| extra5 = Joel Grey
| length5 = 3:11
| title6 = Sitting Pretty
| extra6 = Instrumental
| length6 = 2:27
| title7 = [[Tomorrow Belongs to Me]]
| extra7 = [[Mark Lambert (American actor)|Mark Lambert]]<ref name="TCM Notes"/>
| length7 = 3:06
| title8 = Tiller Girls
| extra8 = Joel Grey
| length8 = 1:41
| title9 = Heiraten (Married)
| extra9 = [[Greta Keller]]
| length9 = 3:45
| title10 = If You Could See Her
| extra10 = Joel Grey
| length10 = 3:54
| title11 = [[Cabaret (Cabaret song)|Cabaret]]
| extra11 = Liza Minnelli
| length11 = 3:34
| title12 = Finale
| extra12 = Joel Grey
| length12 = 2:28
}}

===Charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1973)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row"|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=281}}</ref>
|align="center"|10
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|45|artist=Soundtrack|album=Cabaret|id=69150|rowheader=true|access-date=4 April 2021}}
|-
! scope="row" | Italian Albums (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite book|last=Racca|first=Guido|title=M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019|language=it|date=2019|isbn=978-1094705002}}</ref>
| align="center" | 5
|-
!scope="row"|[[UK Albums Chart|UK Albums]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref name=uk>{{cite web|last=|first=|author-link=|title= Official Albums Chart Top 50 |work=[[Official Charts Company]]|accessdate=4 April 2021|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19730527/7502/}}</ref>
|align="center"|13
|-
!scope="row"|US (Billboard Top 200 Albums)
|align="center"|25
|}

=== Certifications ===
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United States|artist=Liza Minnelli|title=Cabaret (soundtrack)|award=Gold|relyear=1972|certyear=1973|refname=riaa}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}

== Reception ==
===Box office===
[[Image:1972 - Capri Theater Ad - 12 May MC - Allentown PA.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|Newspaper ad for the film]]
The film opened at the [[Ziegfeld Theatre (1969)|Ziegfeld Theatre]] in New York City on February 13, 1972, with a single performance benefit grossing $2,538.<ref name=1stwk/> It started regular showings at the Ziegfeld from February 14, grossing $8,684 in its opening day, and a house record $80,278 for the week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 16, 1972|page=8|title=Temp and Biz in N.Y. Rise; Holders Improve; 'Abductors' $18,000, In 3d; 'Cabaret,' Opening Day, Sock $8,684}}</ref><ref name=1stwk>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=February 23, 1972|page=11|title=Washington Throws $ Over Hudson; Ziegfeld's Hit , At Last, 'Cabaret,' 80G; Newcomers Benefit From Holiday Span}}</ref> It grossed another $165,038 from 6 other theatres in 6 key cities reported by ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', placing it tenth at the US box office.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1972-03-01_266_3/page/9|date=March 1, 1972|page=9}}</ref> After seven months of release, it had grossed $5.3 million in the New York metropolitan area. ''Variety'' estimated that this represented 30% of the film's total compared to the normal 15% for the market, one of the few big-budget films to perform much better in New York.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 13, 1972|page=4|title='Cabaret' New York Area $5,282,263; Figure Is Boff; Less So In Sticks}}</ref> Based on this estimate, the film had grossed around $17 million. By year end, ''Variety'' reported that it had earned [[theatrical rental]]s of $10,885,000, making it the eighth most successful film of the year.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 3, 1973|page=7|title=Big Rental Films of 1972}}</ref> Following the film's success at the Academy Awards in March 1973, it reached [[List of 1973 box office number-one films in the United States|number one at the US box office]] with a gross of $1,880,000 for the week, a record for Allied Artists.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 4, 1973|page=5|title='Cabaret' in Oscar Wow}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1973-04-11_270_9/page/9|date=April 11, 1973|page=9}}</ref> It remained number one for a second week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1973-04-18_270_10/page/9|date=April 18, 1973|page=9}}</ref> By May 1973, the film had earned rentals of $16 million in the United States and Canada and $7 million in other countries and reported a profit of $4,904,000.<ref name="Beaupre 1973"/> By the end of 1973, ''Variety'' had updated the film's rentals in the United States and Canada to $18,175,000.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 9, 1974|page=23|title=Udated All-Time Film Champs}}</ref>

=== Critical reception ===
==== Contemporary reviews ====
''Variety'' claimed the film received the most "sugary" reviews of the year.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 3, 1973|page=7|title='Godfather': & Rest Of Pack|last=Frederick|first=Robert B.}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave a positive review in January 1972, saying: "This is no ordinary musical. Part of its success comes because it doesn't fall for the old cliché that musicals have to make you happy. Instead of cheapening the movie version by lightening its load of despair, director Bob Fosse has gone right to the bleak heart of the material and stayed there well enough to win an [[Academy Award for Best Director]]."<ref name="Ebert 1972"/>

A.D. Murphy of ''Variety'' wrote "The film version of the 1966 John Kander-Fred Ebb Broadway musical ''Cabaret'' is most unusual: it is literate, bawdy, sophisticated, sensual, cynical, heart-warming, and disturbingly thought-provoking. Liza Minnelli heads a strong cast. Bob Fosse's generally excellent direction recreates the milieu of Germany some 40 years ago."<ref name="Variety 1971"/>

[[Roger Greenspun]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote in February 1972 that "''Cabaret'' is one of those immensely gratifying imperfect works in which from beginning to end you can literally feel a movie coming to life."<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/> Likewise, [[Pauline Kael]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote a review that same month in which she applauded the film: {{Blockquote|"A great movie musical. Taking its form from political cabaret, it's a satire of temptations. In a prodigious balancing act, Bob Fosse, the choreographer-director, keeps the period—Berlin, 1931—at a cool distance. We see the decadence as garish and sleazy; yet we also see the animal energy in it—everything seems to become sexualized. The movie does not exploit decadence; rather, it gives it its due. With Joel Grey as our devil-doll host—the master of ceremonies—and Liza Minnelli (in her first singing role on the screen) as exuberant, corruptible [[Sally Bowles]], chasing after the life of a headliner no matter what; Minnelli has such gaiety and electricity that she becomes a star before our eyes."<ref name="Kael 1972"/>}}

==== Reaction of Isherwood and others ====
[[Image:Christopher Isherwood en route to China, 1938. (7893554712) (cropped1).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|[[Christopher Isherwood]] disliked the 1972 film as he felt it depicted homosexuality in a negative light.{{r|Isherwood 1976|p=63}}]]
Although ''Cabaret'' (1972) was well received by film critics upon its release,<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/><ref name="Ebert 1972"/><ref name="Variety 1971"/><ref name="Kael 1972"/> author Christopher Isherwood and other persons upon whom the film's characters were based were less receptive towards the cinematic adaptation.<ref name="Spender 1977"/>{{r|Isherwood 1976|p=63}} Isherwood himself was critical of the 1972 film due to what he perceived as its negative portrayal of homosexuality: {{Blockquote|"In the film of ''Cabaret'', the male lead is called Brian Roberts. He is a bisexual Englishman; he has an affair with Sally and, later, with one of Sally's lovers, a German baron...Brian's homosexual tendency is treated as an indecent but comic weakness to be snickered at, like [[bed-wetting]]."{{r|Isherwood 1976|p=63}}}}

Similarly, Isherwood's friend [[Jean Ross]]—upon whom the character of Sally Bowles was based{{r|Bletchly 2013|p=26}}—was ambivalent about the film.{{r|Isherwood 2012|p=70}} She felt the depiction of 1930s Berlin "was quite, quite different" from reality.{{r|Johnstone 1975|pp=33–34}} Nevertheless, she conceded that the depiction of their social circle of British expatriates as pleasure-seeking libertines was accurate: "We were all utterly against the [[bourgeois]] standards of our parents' generation. That's what took us to [Weimar-era] Berlin. The climate was freer there."{{r|Johnstone 1975|pp=33–34}} Such ambivalence towards ''Cabaret'' (1972) was not unique among Isherwood's circle.<ref name="Spender 1977"/>

The poet [[Stephen Spender]] lamented how ''Cabaret'' (1972) glossed over Weimar Berlin's crushing poverty:
{{Blockquote|"There is not a single meal, or club, in the movie ''Cabaret,'' that Christopher [Isherwood] and I could have afforded [in 1931]. What we mostly knew was the Berlin of poverty, unemployment, political demonstrations and street fighting between forces of the extreme left and the extreme right."<ref name="Spender 1977"/>}} Both Spender and Ross contended that the 1972 film and 1966 Broadway musical deleteriously glamorized the harsh realities of the 1930s Weimar era.<ref name="Spender 1977"/>{{r|Johnstone 1975|pp=33–34}}

==== Retrospective reviews ====
In 2002, Jamie Russell of the BBC wrote that the film was "the first musical ever to be given an [[X certificate]], Bob Fosse's ''Cabaret'' launched Liza Minnelli into Hollywood superstardom and re-invented the musical for the Age of Aquarius."<ref name="Russell 2002"/> In 2013, film critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] listed ''Cabaret'' at number one on his list of "Top 10 musicals", describing it as "satanically catchy, terrifyingly seductive...directed and choreographed with electric style by Bob Fosse...''Cabaret'' is drenched in the sexiest kind of cynicism and decadent despair."<ref name="Bradshaw 2013"/>

==== Controversies ====
Although less explicit compared with other films made in the 1970s, ''Cabaret'' dealt explicitly with topics like corruption, sexual ambiguity, false dreams, and Nazism. Tim Dirks at Filmsite.org notes: "The sexually-charged, semi-controversial, kinky musical was the first one ever to be given an X rating (although later re-rated) with its numerous sexual flings and hedonistic club life. There was considerable sexual innuendo, profanity, casual sex talk (homosexual and heterosexual), some evidence of anti-Semitism, and even an abortion in the film."<ref name="Dirks 2013"/> It was also rated [[History of British film certificates|X in the UK]] and later re-rated as 15.<ref name="Russell 2002"/><ref name="BBFC"/>

On the topic of Nazism, there was little consensus among critics about the possibly fascist implications of the film and play. However, critic Steven Belletto wrote a critique of ''Cabaret'' in the ''Criticism'' journal, published by Wayne State University Press, in which he highlighted the anti-fascist themes in the film present both within and outside of the musical acts. According to Belletto, "despite the ways that the film has been understood by a variety of critics, [''Cabaret''] rejects the logic of fascist certainty by staging various numbers committed to irony and ambiguity."<ref name="Belletto 2008 609–630"/>

The "[[Tomorrow Belongs to Me]]" scene was controversial, with Kander and Ebb, both of whom were Jewish, sometimes being wrongly accused of using a [[Nazi songs|historical Nazi song]].<ref name="Steyn 1997"/> According to an article in ''Variety'' in November 1976, the film was censored in West Berlin when it was first released there theatrically, with the sequence featuring the Hitler Youth singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" having been deleted.<ref name="TCM Notes"/> This elimination was made "because of the feeling that it might stir up resentments in the audience by showing the sympathizers for the Nazi movement during the '30s."<ref name="TCM Notes"/> The sequence was restored, however, when the film was shown on West German television on November 7, 1976.<ref name="TCM Notes"/>

Another topic of discussion was the song "If You Could See Her",{{sfn|Belletto|2008|p=610}} which closed with the line: "If you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look Jewish at all." The point of the song was showing anti-Semitism as it begins to run rampant in Berlin, but there were a number of Jewish groups who interpreted the lyrics differently.{{sfn|Belletto|2008|p=625}}

=== Accolades ===
''Cabaret'' earned a total of ten Academy Award nominations (winning eight of them) and holds the [[List of Academy Award records#Film records|record for most Academy Awards for a film that did not also win Best Picture]].<ref name="TCM Notes"/><ref name="Academy Awards"/>

Shortly before the [[45th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]], [[Bob Fosse]] won two [[Tony Award]]s for directing and choreographing ''[[Pippin (musical)|Pippin]]'', his biggest stage hit. Months later, he won the [[Primetime Emmy Award]] for choreographing and directing [[Liza Minnelli]]'s television special ''[[Liza with a Z]]'', he became the first director to win all three awards in one year.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="10"| [[45th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Cy Feuer]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="10" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973 |title=The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2014-03-01 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Bob Fosse]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Liza Minnelli]]
| {{won}}
|- 
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Joel Grey]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| [[Jay Presson Allen]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| Art Direction: [[Hans Jürgen Kiebach]] and [[Rolf Zehetbauer]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Herbert Strabel]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Geoffrey Unsworth]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[David Bretherton]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score]]
| [[Ralph Burns]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Robert Knudson]] and [[David Hildyard]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| David Bretherton
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Bodil Awards]]
| [[Bodil Award for Best American Film|Best Non-European Film]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="11"| [[26th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| rowspan="11" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1973/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1973 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1973 |access-date=June 3, 2021 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1973}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| Liza Minnelli
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Marisa Berenson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Jay Presson Allen
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| Rolf Zehetbauer
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Geoffrey Unsworth {{small|(also for ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'')}}
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
| Charlotte Flemming
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| David Bretherton
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Sound|Best Soundtrack]]
| David Hildyard, Robert Knudson, and [[Arthur Piantadosi]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles|Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles]]
| Joel Grey
| {{won}}
|-
| [[British Society of Cinematographers]]
| Best Cinematography
| Geoffrey Unsworth
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://bscine.com/media/uploads/awards/bsc-cinematography-feature-film.pdf?v |title=Best Cinematography in Feature Film |access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director|Best Foreign Director]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{won}}
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 
|-
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]]
| Liza Minnelli
| {{won}}
|-
| [[25th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1970s/1972.aspx?value=1972 |title=25th DGA Awards |website=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="9"| [[30th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
| rowspan="9" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/cabaret |title=Cabaret – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=July 5, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1973}}}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Liza Minnelli
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| Joel Grey
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
| rowspan="2"| Marisa Berenson
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress|Most Promising Newcomer – Female]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Motion Picture]]
| Jay Presson Allen
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song – Motion Picture]]
| "Mein Herr" <br> Music by John Kander; <br> Lyrics by Fred Ebb
| {{nom}}
|-
| "Money, Money" <br> Music by John Kander; <br> Lyrics by Fred Ebb
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)|Grand Prix]]
| colspan="2"| Best Film
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Kansas City Film Critics Circle|Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| Best Supporting Actor
| Joel Grey
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1970-79/ |title=KCFCC Award Winners – 1970-79 |date=December 14, 2013 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1972|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{won}}
| rowspan="5" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1972/ |title=1972 Award Winners |website=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Bob Fosse
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Joel Grey
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Al Pacino]] for ''[[The Godfather]]''.}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| Marisa Berenson
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Liza Minnelli
| {{draw|5th Place}}
| rowspan="3" align="center"| <ref>{{cite news|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |website=[[National Society of Film Critics]] |date=19 December 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Joel Grey
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Eddie Albert]] for ''[[The Heartbreak Kid (1972 film)|The Heartbreak Kid]]''.}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Geoffrey Unsworth
| {{draw|4th Place}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Productions |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sant Jordi Awards]]
| Best Performance in a Foreign Film
| Liza Minnelli
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[25th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Comedy – Adapted from Another Medium]]
| Jay Presson Allen
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |date= |work=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=2012-12-05 |access-date=2010-06-06 |language=en}}</ref>
|}

=== American Film Institute recognition ===
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs]]
** Cabaret – No. 18
* [[AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals]] – No. 5
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – No. 63 {{ISBN missing}}

=== National Film Registry ===
Inducted into the [[National Film Registry]] in 1995 among a list of 25 Films that year.<ref name="National Film Registry"/>

== Legacy ==
[[Image:Liza Minnelli 1973 Special.JPG|thumb|Minnelli reprised the character of Sally Bowles for an encore performance in the 1973 television special ''[[Liza with a Z]]'', also directed by [[Bob Fosse]].]]

''Cabaret'' has been cited by ''TV Guide'' as among the greatest films made<ref name="TV Guide"/> and in ''Movieline'' magazine as one of the "100 Best Movies Ever".<ref name="Movieline Magazine"/> It was included in Film4's "100 Greatest Films of All Time" at #78<ref name="Filmsite.org"/> and in ''The San Francisco Chronicle''{{'}}s "Hot 100 Films of the Past", being hailed as "the last great musical. Liza Minnelli plays Sally Bowles, an American adrift in pre-Nazi Berlin, in Bob Fosse's stylish, near-perfect film."<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle Film Critics"/>

David Benedict has written in ''The Guardian'' about ''Cabaret''{{'s}} influence in musical films: "Back then, musicals were already low on film-goers' lists, so how come it was such a success? Simple: ''Cabaret'' is the musical for people who hate them. Given the vibrancy of its now iconic numbers – Liza Minnelli in [[bowler hat|bowler]] and black suspenders astride a bentwood chair belting out 'Mein Herr' or shimmying and shivering with pleasure over 'Money' with Joel Grey – it sounds strange to say it, but one of the chief reasons why ''Cabaret'' is so popular is that it's not shot like a musical."<ref name="Benedict 2002"/>

The film has been listed as one of the most important for [[queer cinema]] for its depictions of bisexuality,<ref name="Greenspun 1972"/> arguably transgressive at the time of its 1972 [[Motion Picture Production Code|post-Code]] release and has been credited with turning Liza Minnelli into a [[gay icon]]. Film blogs have selected it as "the gayest winner in the history of the Academy."<ref name="Baines 2012"/><ref name="St. James 2017"/><ref name="Out.com"/>

=== Home media ===
The film was first released to DVD in 1998. There have been releases in 2003, 2008, and 2012. The film's international ancillary distribution rights are owned by ABC (now part of [[The Walt Disney Company]]), Fremantle (UK), [[Warner Bros.]] (which acquired the film as part of its purchase of [[Lorimar Productions]], which had acquired the film library of [[Monogram Pictures|Allied Artists]]) has US domestic distribution rights.

In April 2012, Warner unveiled a new restoration of the film at the [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM Classic Film Festival]].<ref name="McNary 2012"/><ref name="TCM Festival"/><ref name="Elber 2012"/> A DigiBook edition was later released on Blu-ray on February 5, 2013.<ref name="Reuben 2013"/> Before this restoration, ''Cabaret'' had been sold on a [[standard-definition]] DVD from Warner Bros., but the film was unavailable in [[High-definition video|high-definition]] or for [[Digital cinema|digital projections]] in cinemas.<ref name="Elber 2012"/> The original camera negative is lost, and a surviving [[interpositive]] had a vertical scratch that ran through 1,000 feet, or 10 minutes, of one of its reels, as confirmed by Ned Price, vice president of mastering and restoration for Warner Bros.<ref name="Elber 2012"/> The damage ostensibly was inflicted by a grain of dirt that had rolled through the length of the reel, beginning with a scene in which Michael York's character confronts a pro-Nazi boarding house resident, and had cut into the emulsion.<ref name="Elber 2012"/> The marred frames were digitally restored, but "the difficult part was matching the grain structure so the fix was invisible." After automated digital repair attempts failed, the 1,000 feet<!-- article said 1.4&nbsp;million frames, but that does not calculate. 10 minutes x 60 seconds/minute = 600 seconds x 24 Frames Per Second (FPS – a common film rate) = 14,400 frames--> of damaged film was hand painted using a computer stylus.<ref name="Elber 2012"/>

[[Warner Archive Collection]] reissued the Blu-ray on November 20, 2018, without the DigiBook.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cabaret-Blu-ray/216055/#Review|title=Cabaret Blu-ray|website=Blu-ray.com|access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of American films of 1972]]

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist
| refs =

<ref name="Academy Awards">{{cite web 
 | url = http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html
 | title = Films Winning 4 or More Awards Without Winning Best Picture
 | date = March 2011 
 | publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
 | access-date = September 15, 2011
 | url-status = dead
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160701093205/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics%2FindexStats.html
 | archive-date = July 1, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="AFI">{{AFI film|54427|Cabaret}}</ref>

<ref name="Baines 2012">{{cite web
 | last = Baines
 | first = Christian
 | title = 10 Classic Movies Every Gay Man Must See
 | url = http://www.samesame.com.au/features/8708/10-classic-movies-every-gay-man-must-see?page=2
 | website = samesame
 | date = July 24, 2012
 | access-date = February 21, 2016
 | url-status = dead
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160302135729/http://www.samesame.com.au/features/8708/10-classic-movies-every-gay-man-must-see?page=2
 | archive-date = March 2, 2016
 | df = mdy-all
}}</ref>

<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret
 | url = https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/cabaret-1970-2
 | website = [[British Board of Film Classification]]
 | access-date = May 11, 2019
}}</ref>

<ref name="Beaupre 1973">{{cite magazine
 | last = Beaupre
 | first = Lee
 | title = ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses
 | magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]
 | date = May 31, 1973
 | page = 3 
}}</ref>

<ref name="Benedict 2002">{{cite news
 | last = Benedict
 | first = David
 | title = Win When You're Singing
 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jun/16/features.review2
 | newspaper = [[The Guardian]]
 | date = June 15, 2002
 | access-date = February 7, 2016
 | issn = 0261-3077
}}</ref>

<ref name="Bletchly 2013">{{cite news
 | last = Bletchly
 | first = Rachel
 | title = Their True Characters
 | page = 26
 | newspaper = [[Daily Mirror]]
 | location = [[London]]
 | date = April 2, 2013
}}</ref>

<ref name="Box Office">{{cite web
 | url = http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/movie.cgi?title=Cabaret&year=1972
 | publisher = Worldwide Box Office 
 | title = Cabaret, Worldwide Box Office
 | access-date = January 21, 2012
}}</ref>

<ref name="Bradshaw 2013">{{cite news
  | last = Bradshaw
  | first = Peter
  | title = Top 10 Musicals
  | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/dec/03/top-10-movie-musicals
  | access-date = December 3, 2013
  | newspaper = [[The Guardian]]
  | date = December 3, 2013
 }}</ref>

<ref name="Buck 1973">{{cite news
 | last = Buck
 | first = Jerry
 | title = Lizi Minnelli Is Named Best Actress — Brando Won't Accept Oscar
 | newspaper = Youngstown Vindicator
 | pages = 1–2
 | publisher = [[Associated Press]]
 | date = March 28, 1973
 | df = mdy-all
 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yy5JAAAAIBAJ&pg=677,4786728
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
 }}</ref>

<ref name="Cabaret Soundtrack">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret (1972) soundtrack details
 | url = http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/1268/Cabaret
 | access-date = March 25, 2013
}}</ref>

<ref name="Day 1974">{{cite episode
 | last1 = Day
 | first1 = James
 | author-link1 = James Day (journalist)
 | last2 = Isherwood 
 | first2 = Christopher 
 | author-link2 = Christopher Isherwood 
 | title = Christopher Isherwood on Day at Night, with James Day 
 | transcript = Episode Information
 | transcript-url = https://www.cuny.tv/show/dayatnight/PR1012147
 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx09mDenhKU
 | access-date = June 18, 2018
 | series = Day at Night
 | series-link = Day at Night
 | network = [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS)
 | station = [[CUNY TV]] 
 | date = April 25, 1974
 | season = 2
 | number = 32
 | language = en
}}</ref>

<ref name="Dirks 2013">{{cite web
 | last = Dirks
 | first = Tim
 | title = Cabaret (1972)
 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/caba.html
 | year = 2013
 | website = [[Filmsite.org]]
 | access-date = February 7, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Doyle 2013">{{cite news
 | last = Doyle
 | first = Rachel B.
 | date = 12 April 2013
 | title = Looking for Isherwood's Berlin
 | language = en-US
 | work = [[The New York Times]]
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/travel/looking-for-christopher-isherwoods-berlin.html
 | access-date = February 26, 2022
 | issn = 0362-4331
}}</ref>

<ref name="Ebert 1972">{{cite web 
 | last = Ebert 
 | first = Roger 
 | author-link = Roger Ebert 
 | title = Cabaret Movie Review & Film Summary (1972) 
 | website = [[RogerEbert.com]]
 | date = January 1, 1972 
 | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cabaret-1972 
 | access-date = June 12, 2019 
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190612045116/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cabaret-1972 
 | archive-date = June 12, 2019 
 | url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Elber 2012">{{cite web
 | last = Elber
 | first = Lynn
 | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/cabaret-bob-fosse-restoration_n_1420589.html
 | title = 'Cabaret': Bob Fosse Classic Gets Restoration For 40th Anniversary
 | website = [[HuffPost]]
 | date = April 12, 2012
 | archive-date = February 8, 2013
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130208102143/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/cabaret-bob-fosse-restoration_n_1420589.html
 | url-status = dead
}}</ref>

<ref name="Farina 2013">{{cite book
 | last = Farina
 | first = William
 | author-link = William Farina
 | title = The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music
 | location = [[London]]
 | publisher = [[McFarland & Company]]
 | chapter = Christopher Isherwood, Reporting from Berlin
 | page = 79 
 | year = 2013
 | isbn = 978-0-7864-6863-8
 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YdUiL1XHZKkC&pg=PA79
}}</ref>

<ref name="Filmsite.org">{{cite web
 | last = Dirks
 | first = Tim
 | title = 100 Greatest Films of All Time
 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/filmfour4.html
 | website = [[Filmsite.org]]
 | access-date = February 6, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Frost 2013">{{cite news
 | last = Frost
 | first = Peter
 | title = Jean Ross: The Real Sally Bowles
 | newspaper = [[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]
 | date = December 31, 2013
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
 | url = https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-52c7-Jean-Ross-the-real-Sally-Bowles 
}} Frost's article is more or less a summary of the Oxford National Biography article by [[Peter Parker (author)|Peter Parker]].</ref>

<ref name="Fryer 1993">{{cite book
 | last = Fryer
 | first = Jonathan
 | title = Eye of the Camera
 | year = 1993
 | page = 83
 | publisher = Allison & Busy
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ROtaAAAAMAAJ
 | isbn = 978-0-85031-938-5
}}</ref>

<ref name="Garebian 2011">{{cite book
 | last = Garebian
 | first = Keith
 | title  = The Making of Cabaret
 | location = Oxford
 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
 | year = 2011
 | isbn = 978-0199732500
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PuD3p2IGW5oC
}}</ref>

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<ref name="Green 2008">{{cite magazine
 | last = Green
 | first = Willow
 | url = https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/500-greatest-movies/ 
 | title = Empire's 500 Greatest films of all time 
 | magazine = [[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]
 | date = October 3, 2008
 | access-date = June 22, 2016
}}</ref-->

<ref name="Greenspun 1972">{{cite news
 | last = Greenspun
 | first = Roger
 | author-link = Roger Greenspun
 | title = Liza Minnelli Stirs a Lively 'Cabaret'
 | date = February 14, 1972
 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/14/archives/liza-minnelli-stirs-a-lively-cabaret.html
}}</ref>

<ref name="Internet Broadway Database">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret – Broadway Musical – Original 
 | url = https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/cabaret-3348/#songs 
 | website = [[Internet Broadway Database]] 
 | access-date = December 21, 2018
}}</ref>

<ref name="Isherwood 1976">{{cite book
 | last = Isherwood
 | first = Christopher
 | author-link = Christopher Isherwood
 | title = Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=n0IOAQAAMAAJ
 | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 | location = New York
 | year = 1976 
 | isbn = 978-0374-53522-3
}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Isherwood 2012">{{cite book 
 | last = Isherwood
 | first = Christopher
 | author-link = Christopher Isherwood
 | title = Liberation: Diaries, Vol. 3: 1970–1983
 | location = [[New York City|New York]]
 | publisher = [[HarperCollins]]
 |year = 2012
 | isbn = 978-0-06-208474-3
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q5Jbx9NeDV4C&pg=PP1
}}</ref>

<ref name="Izzo 2005">{{cite book
 | last = Izzo
 | first = David Garrett
 | title = Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia
 | location = [[London]]
 | publisher = [[McFarland & Company]]
 | pages = 97, 144
 | year = 2005
 | isbn = 0-7864-1519-3
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vhAkCQAAQBAJ&q=oswald%20mosley%20action%20christopher%20isherwood&pg=PA144
}}</ref>

<ref name="Johnstone 1975">{{cite magazine
 | last = Johnstone
 | first = Iain
 | author-link = Iain Johnstone
 | title = The Real Sally Bowles
 | magazine = [[Folio (magazine)|Folio]]
 | pages = 33–34
 | date = Autumn 1975
 | location = [[Washington, D.C.]]
 | publisher =[[American University]]
}}</ref>

<ref name="Kael 1972">{{cite magazine
 | last = Kael 
 | first = Pauline
 | title = Grinning (Review of Cabaret)
 | author-link = Pauline Kael
 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1972/02/19/grinning
 | magazine = [[The New Yorker]]
 | date = February 12, 1972
 | access-date = February 6, 2016
 | pages = 84, 86–88
}}</ref>

<ref name="Lehmann 1987">{{cite book
 | last = Lehmann
 | first = John
 | author-link = John Lehmann
 | title  = Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir
 | location = [[New York City|New York]]
 | publisher = [[Henry Holt and Company]]
 | year = 1987
 | isbn = 0-8050-1029-7
 | pages = 28–9
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1OtaAAAAMAAJ
}}</ref>

<ref name="MacLean 2014">{{cite book
| last = MacLean
| first = Roy
| title = Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
| year = 2014
| page = 181
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=N0uKBAAAQBAJ
| publisher = St. Martin's Press
| via = Google Books
| isbn = 978-1-250-05186-8
}}</ref>

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<ref name="McLaughlin 2013">{{cite news
 | last = McLaughlin
 | first = Katie 
 | date = February 13, 2013
 | title = Life is (Still) a 'Cabaret'
 | url = http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/showbiz/cabaret-40th-anniversary/index.html
 | publisher = [[CNN (Cable News Network)]]
 | access-date = February 7, 2016
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<ref name="McNary 2012">{{cite magazine
 | last = McNary
 | first = Dave
 | title = Restored 'Cabaret' to Open TCM Festival
 | magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]
 | url = https://variety.com/2012/film/news/restored-cabaret-to-open-tcm-fest-1118049554/ 
 | date = January 31, 2012
}}</ref>

<ref name="Minnelli 2006">{{cite episode
 | title = Liza Minnelli
 | title-link = Liza Minnelli
 | series = Inside the Actors Studio
 | date = February 5, 2006
 | season = 12
 | number = 6
 | language = en
 | df = mdy-all
 | network = [[Bravo (American TV channel)|Bravo]]
}}</ref>

<ref name="Moss 1979">{{cite news
 | last = Moss
 | first = Howard
 | author-link = Howard Moss
 | title = Christopher Isherwood: Man and Work
 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
 | date = June 3, 1979
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/03/archives/christopher-isherwood-man-and-work-isherwood.html
}}</ref>

<ref name="Movieline Magazine">{{cite web
 | last = Dirks
 | first = Tim
 | title = The 100 Best Movies Ever Made by Movieline Magazine
 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/movieline.html
 | website = [[Filmsite.org]]
 | access-date = February 6, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="National Film Registry">{{cite web
 | url = https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
 | title = Complete National Film Registry Listing
 | website = Library of Congress
 | access-date = February 27, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Original Recording">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret: Original Soundtrack Recording (1972 Film)
 | website = Amazon
 | url = https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005KOH/soundtrackcollec
 | access-date = March 25, 2013
}}</ref>

<ref name="Out.com">{{cite web
 | title = 50 Essential Gay Films
 | url = http://www.out.com/entertainment/movies/2011/02/09/50-essential-gay-films 
 | website = Out.com 
 | date = December 9, 2012 
 | access-date = February 21, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Parker 2004">{{cite ODNB
 | last = Parker
 | first = Peter
 | author-link = Peter Parker (author)
 | title = Ross, Jean Iris (1911–1973)
 | date = September 2004
 | url = https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/74425
 | access-date = June 18, 2017
 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/74425
 | url-access=subscription
}}</ref>

<ref name="Parker 2005">{{cite book
 | last = Parker
 | first = Peter
 | author-link = Peter Parker (author)
 | title = Isherwood: A Life Revealed
 | year = 2005
 | orig-year = 2004
 | publisher = [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]]
 | location = London
 | isbn = 978-0-330-32826-5
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CdF2UXFgcFcC
 | pages = 192, 220
 | via = Google Books
}}</ref>

<ref name="Reuben 2013">{{cite web
 | last = Reuben
 | first = Michael
 | url = https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cabaret-Blu-ray/43488/#Review
 | date = January 25, 2013
 | title = Cabaret Blu-ray
 | website = Blu-ray.com
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Russell 2002">{{cite news
 | last = Russell
 | first = Jamie
 | title = BBC – Films – Review – Cabaret
 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/06/06/caberet_1972_review.shtml
 | publisher = [[BBC]]
 | date = June 6, 2002
 | access-date = December 7, 2015
}}</ref>

<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle Film Critics">{{cite web
 | last = Dirks
 | first = Tim 
 | title = Hot 100 Films from the Past
 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/sfchron.html
 | website = [[Filmsite.org]]
 | access-date = February 6, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Schudel 2019">{{cite news
 | last = Schudel
 | first = Matt
 | date = January 23, 2019
 | access-date = February 28, 2020
 | title = Kaye Ballard, comic actress and singer from vaudeville to TV, dies at 93
 | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/kaye-ballard-comic-actress-and-singer-from-vaudeville-to-tv-dies-at-93/2019/01/22/6b7bd12c-1e7b-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
}}</ref>

<ref name="Spender 1966">{{cite book
 | last = Spender
 | first = Stephen
 | author-link = Stephen Spender
 | title = World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9OW3Ke7WKBMC
 | location = [[Berkeley, California]]
 | publisher = [[University of California Press]]
 | year = 1966
 | orig-year = 1951
 | pages = 125–130
 | isbn = 978-0-679-64045-5
}}</ref>

<ref name="Spender 1977">{{cite news
 | last = Spender
 | first = Stephen
 | author-link = Stephen Spender
 | title = Life Wasn't a Cabaret
 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
 | page = 198
 | date = October 30, 1977
 | access-date= February 20, 2020
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/30/archives/life-wasnt-a-cabaret-on-a-visit-to-the-berlin-festival-stephen.html
}}</ref>

<ref name="St. James 2017">{{cite web
  | last = St. James
  | first = James
  | title = The Gay Essentials: The 50 Movies Every Gay Man Needs to See
  | url = http://worldofwonder.net/gay-essentials-50-movies-every-gay-man-needs-see/
  | website = The WOW Report
  | date = June 8, 2017
  | access-date = February 21, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Steyn 1997">{{cite news
 | last = Steyn
 | first = Mark
 | author-link = Mark Steyn
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/steins-of-the-times-1297021.html
 | title = Hammerstein, Bernstein, Blitzstein, Jule Styne – The great names of American musical theatre are Jewish.
 | date = November 29, 1997
 | newspaper = [[The Independent]]
 | access-date = May 21, 2018
 | quote = The best Nazi song is by Jewish songwriters. As with "Ol' Man River", when Cabaret called for an ostensibly innocent pastoral hymn to German nationalism, John Kander and Fred Ebb turned in such a plausible doppelganger that it was immediately denounced as a grossly offensive Nazi anthem. "The accusations against Tomorrow Belongs To Me' made me very angry", says Fred Ebb. "'I knew that song as a child', one man had the audacity to tell me. A rabbinical person wrote to me saying he had absolute proof it was a Nazi song." It wasn't: it was written in the mid-Sixties for a Broadway musical. But today, it's the only Nazi song we all know: On election night 1987, when Spitting Image decided to draw some "crass parallels" between Mrs Thatcher and another strong leader, they opted to show the Tories singing not the Horst Wessel song, but "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" – secure in the knowledge that we'd all get the joke.
}}</ref>

<ref name="TCM Festival">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret (1972)
 | url = http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/458081/index.html 
 | publisher = [[TCM Classic Film Festival]]
 | year = 2012 
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120424182448/http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/458081/index.html 
 | archive-date = April 24, 2012
}}</ref>

<ref name="TCM Notes">{{cite web
 | title = Cabaret (1972) – Notes – TCM.com 
 | url = http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21780/Cabaret/notes.html
 | website = [[Turner Classic Movies]]
 | access-date = February 8, 2016
 | url-status = dead
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171021035856/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/21780/Cabaret/notes.html
 | archive-date = October 21, 2017
}}</ref>

<ref name="Thomson 2005">{{cite magazine
 | last = Thomson
 | first = David
 | author-link = David Thomson (film critic)
 | title = The Observer as Hero
 | date = March 21, 2005
 | access-date = October 2, 2019
 | url = https://newrepublic.com/article/68111/the-observer-hero
 | magazine = [[The New Republic]]
 | location = [[New York City]]
}}</ref>

<ref name="TV Guide">{{cite web
 | last = Dirks
 | first = Tim
 | title = 50 Greatest Movies from TV Guide
 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/tvguide.html
 | website = [[Filmsite.org]]
 | access-date = February 6, 2016
}}</ref>

<ref name="Variety 1969">{{cite magazine
 | title = 'Cabaret' Film Rights At AA's Peak $1.5-Mil
 | date = May 28, 1969
 | page = 1
 | magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]
}}</ref>

<ref name="Variety 1971">{{cite magazine
 | title = Cabaret
 | url = https://variety.com/1971/film/reviews/cabaret-2-1200422826/
 | magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]
 | date = February 16, 1972
| last=Murphy
|first=A.D.
|page=18
 | access-date = December 7, 2015
}}</ref>

}}
*{{cite journal
 | last = Belletto
 | first = Steven
 | title = 'Cabaret' and Antifascist Aesthetics
 | journal = Criticism
 | volume = 50
 | number = 4
 | year = 2008
 | pages = 609–630
 | doi = 10.1353/crt.0.0081
 | jstor = 23130878
| s2cid = 194076043
 }}

== Bibliography ==
Francesco Mismirigo, ''Cabaret, un film allemand'', Université de Genève, 1984

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* [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/cabaret.pdf ''Cabaret''] essay by Stephen Tropiano on the [[National Film Registry]] website
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