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Liza Minelli, Michael York and Joel Grey star in Bob Fosse's dazzling musical, which doubles as a devastating political portrait of the creeping darkness of 1930s Berlin. Fosse reimagines the Broadway show into something sharper and more cinematic, using the Kit Kat Klub as a prism through which to view the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the inexorable rise of Adolf Hitler and fascism. Every number in the club functions as commentary on the characters’ lives outside it, turning entertainment into a mirror of social decay.

Cabaret's great achievement is in some ways being the thing it is commenting on: it's a study of denial and complicity and how musical and visual entertainment can be used to "keep the crowds dancing" as societies drift into darkness. This screening is part of the Barcelona Queer Film Festival, full details of which can be found athttps://filmfreeway.com/barcelonaqueerfilmfestival.