Cabaret
– A filmed stage performance of the 1993 London revival. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perditio..
A filmed stage performance of the 1993 London revival. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall) directed this new production for the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. It supposedly only aired on television one time, though the theatrical production ran for about three and a half months.
English
Joe Masteroff (book), John Van Druten (play), Christopher Isherwood (based on the stories by)
Jane Horrocks, Alan Cumming, Sara Kestelman, George Raistrick
A straight film of the stage show which as far as I know was only shown once. Young American writer goes to Berlin at a time Nazis were emerging. Meets Sally Bowles at the Kit Kat club... songs get sung, lessons learned and hearts broken. Moving portrayal of decadence and ignorance in a hedonistic world. Moving and far closer to the original musical than the Liza Minelli Film - the production went to Broadway and was a huge success.