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Released
1972 · FILM

Cabaret

Ambitious cabaret star Sally Bowles fights to keep her dazzling performances alive in Berlin’s Kit Kat Club, even as the encroaching tide of fascism threatens to silence both art and freedom.

“Life is a Cabaret.”

Directed by
Bob Fosse
Written by
Joe Masteroff, John Van Druten
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
124 min
DramaMusicMusical

Synopsis

Set in the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, *Cabaret* follows the life of Sally Bowles, an ambitious and charismatic singer, and the enigmatic emcee who presides over the club's performances. As the club becomes a haven for hedonism and artistic expression, the outside world is increasingly dominated by the rise of a powerful and oppressive political movement.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David BrethertonShot by Geoffrey UnsworthScored by John KanderDesigned by Rolf Zehetbauer

Box Office

1972 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$42.8M

Budget$4.6M
Worldwide gross$42.8M
break-even (2.5×)

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