Music · Romance · Drama
American
1972 · Directed by Bob Fosse · 124 min
Berlin, 1931. An English newcomer rents a room in a boarding house and is drawn into the Kit Kat Club, where a singer named Sally Bowles performs nightly under a sly, painted emcee. The songs are bright and the mood is seductive, but the city outside the club is changing.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the post-1960s musical and a central example of how New Hollywood adapted a studio genre to adult, political material. It also reset how film musicals could use songs as commentary rather than expression.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film keeps its songs inside the club and asks what each number is saying about the world outside.
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