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### Cabaret (1972 film) – Concise Summary

**Setting**: Berlin, 1931–1932 – the final months of the Weimar Republic, just as the Nazis are rising to power.

**Story**

An American academic, Brian Roberts (Michael York), arrives in Berlin to teach English and finish his doctorate. He rents a room in a boarding house and meets Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), a flamboyant, hedonistic American cabaret singer at the decadent Kit Kat Klub.

Sally is the ultimate “live for today” Weimar archetype: she dreams of stardom, parties relentlessly, and refuses to think about tomorrow because “tomorrow might be worse.” Brian, initially reserved and bisexual, is gradually pulled into her chaotic, pleasure-seeking world. They begin a complicated romantic and sexual relationship.

Meanwhile, a wealthy German baron, Maximilian von Heune, seduces both Sally and Brian in a brief, glamorous ménage-à-trois that highlights the sexual fluidity and excess of 1930s Berlin nightlife.

Running parallel is the slow, sinister rise of Nazism. The Kit Kat Klub’s sleazy Emcee (Joel Grey) performs increasingly dark, satirical musical numbers that mirror real-world events: Nazi rallies, antisemitic violence, and the growing intimidation of anyone who doesn’t conform. The film repeatedly cuts from carefree cabaret scenes to brownshirts beating people in the street.

**Ending** (spoiler)

Sally gets pregnant (probably by Brian), but chooses abortion and her cabaret career over motherhood or leaving Germany. Brian returns to England, defeated. In the final shot, the camera pans across the Kit Kat Klub’s audience—now filled with Nazi uniforms—while the distorted reflection in a mirror shows the Emcee giving a chilling Nazi salute. The party is over; the nightmare has begun.

**Core message**

Cabaret is about willful blindness. While people danced, drank, and slept around to escape economic despair and political dread, evil quietly took over. “Life is a cabaret” becomes the tragic anthem of a society that partied instead of resisting.

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