INDISTINCT CHATTER
DRUM ROLL
DRUM ROLL BUILDS...
..AND BUILDS
CYMBAL CLASHES
OPENING BARS OF "Willkommen" song
# Willkommen, bienvenu, welcome
# Fremder, etranger, stranger
# Glucklich zu sehen
# Je suis enchante Happy to see you
# Bleiben, restez, stay
# Willkommen, bienvenu, welcome
# Im Kabarett, au cabaret
to cabaret. #
MC CONTINUES...
Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies und Gentlemen. Comment ca va?
Do you feel good? Ich bin
euer Conferencier. I am your host!
Und sage...
# Willkommen, bienvenu, welcome
# Im Kabarett, au cabaret
to cabar-et! #
Leave your troubles outside! So, life is disappointing. Forget it.
In here...life is beautiful!
The girls are beautiful.
Even the orchestra...is beautiful.
JAZZ VERSION
Beautiful.
And now, presenting the Cabaret girls.
Heidi... Christina.
Mausie.
Helga.
Betty.
Und Inge.
Each and every one a w-irgin!
You don't believe me?
Well, do not take MY word for it!
Go ahead... ask Helga!
Outside it is v-indy, but here,
it is SO hot.
Every night we have ze battle to keep the girls from taking off ALL their clothing!
So, don't go away. Who knows?
Tonight we may lose ze battle.
MUSIC: "Willkommen" song
DANCING GIRLS' VOICES: # Glucklich zu sehen Je suis enchantee
# Happy to see you...
# Willkommen, bienvenu, WELCOME
# Im Kabarett, au cabaret
to cabaret. #
Und now eine kleine Preview aus unserem Programm.
Wir bringen Ihnen die Brezeldame. Der rasante Richard.
Die charmante Chanteuse aus Amerika, Fraulein Garibald.
Die einmalige Fraulein Elke.
Und last but not least, die Spielknaben, the Toy Boys.
# Wir sagen...
(# Willkommen, bienvenu,
welcome.
(# Fremder, etranger, stranger)
Hallo, stranger!
# Glucklich zu sehen Je suis enchantee
# Happy to see you... Wooo!
# Bleiben, restez, stay
# Wir sag-en
# Willkommen, bienvenu
# Welcome
# Im Kabarett
# Au cabaret To ca-ba-ret! #
AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
RINGS BELL
Ja?
Guten Tag, Fraulein, bin ich bei Schneider? Koennte ich sie sprechen?
Ich suche ein Zimmer. Fraulein Schneider nicht zu Hause. Have you a cigarette? I am desperate!
Yes.
Yes, I think so. Oh, fantastic.
You're American. How depressing.
I'm trying to be an international woman of mystery!
I was told there might be a room to rent here.
Not too expensive, I hope.
Divine decadence. I'm Sally Bowles.
I'm Brian Roberts.
Come in, Brian, darling.
Oh, schoen, Englische Zigaretten.
God, I've even begun to think in German!
How long have you been here?
Forever! How long's that? 3 months.
There's marvellous lodgers here!
Everybody's broke, of course. Who isn't? There's Fraulein Mayr, who's a masseuse - ladies only.
Then Fraulein Kost is a terribly sweet streetwalker.
Fraulein Kost, Fraulein Mayr.
Mayr tells Kost's fortune each day.
It's always the same - you'll meet
a strange man, which is a pretty
safe bet! Das Toilette.
Fraulein Kost's room. You can imagine(!)
Here it is, darling.
Oh. What else do you need besides a bed?
Pupils. I've got to give English lessons to pay the rent. You can use my room for that.
See? Practically a suite. Come on in.
You'll ADORE these.
Prairie Oysters, darling. It's an egg with Worcestershire sauce.
50 marks. With breakfast, even when I'm behind on the rent. Divine, isn't it? Except I'm hardly in.
Why not? Well, I dash all day and I work late at the Cabaret.
Now, these work instantly even on SINISTER hangovers!
I MAY bring a boyfriend home, but I DO think one OUGHT to go to the man's room.
It doesn't look as if one expected it. Exactly.
MUSIC STARTS PLAYING
You've acquired a lot of worldly
wisdom. Not wisdom, instincts.
I have ancient instincts.
And I have this strange mystical...
thatish feeling about you.
So, you're moving right in, OK? OK?
OK. Prairie Oysters.
Cheers.
Peppermint Prairie Oyster? The toothpaste glass!
DRUM ROLL
Meine Damen und Herren. Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs.
Und now... The Kit Kat Klub... is proud to present... a beautiful young lady. She is SO beautiful!
..SO beautiful... and talented... ..talented, so charming. I have only yesterday said,
"I vant you for my wife."
Und she says... "Your wife, what would she want... with me?"
I give you that international zensation Fraulein SALLY BOWLES.
BAND STARTS PLAYING
# You have to understand
the way I am, mein Herr
# A tiger is a tiger
not a lamb, mein Herr
# You'll never turn the vinegar
to jam, mein Herr
# So I do...what I do When I'm through...
# Then I'm through...
And I'm through...toodle-oo
# Bye, bye
# Mein lieber Herr
# Farewell, mein lieber Herr
# It was a fine affair But now it's over
# And though I used to care I need the open air
# You're better off without me
mein Herr
# Don't dab your eye, mein Herr
Or wonder why, mein Herr
I've always said that I was a rover
# You mustn't knit your brow
You should've known by now
You've cause to doubt me, mein Herr
# The continent of Europe is so wide, mein Herr
# Not only up and down
but side to side, mein Herr
# I couldn't cross it if I tried
mein Herr
# But I do...what I can...
inch by inch...
# Step by step... Mile by mile...
# Man by man
# Bye...bye...
# ..mein lieber Herr
Farewell, mein lieber Herr
# It was a fine affair But now it's over
# And though I used to care I need the open air
# You're better off without me
mein Herr!
# Don't dab your eye, mein Herr
Or wonder why, mein Herr
I've always said I was a rover
# You mustn't knit your brow
You should've known by now
You'd cause to doubt me, mein Herr
# Bye, bye, mein lieber Herr
Auf Wiedersehen, mein Herr
Es war sehr gut, mein Herr, vorbei
# Du kennst mich wohl, mein Herr
Ach lebe wohl, mein Herr
Du sollst mich nie mehr sehen!
# Bye-bye, mein lieber Herr...
Und vorbei
# Du kennst mich wohl...
Mein He-rr... And bye, bye
# Bye, bye, mein lieber Herr
Farewell, mein lieber Herr
It was a fine affair but it's over
# And though I...used to care
I need the open air
You're better off without me
# Es war sehr gut Mein...He-rr! #
APPLAUSE FROM AUDIENCE
BAND PLAYS "WILLKOMMEN" MUSIC
BAND DROWNS OUT HIS CONVERSATION
You know, you're really very good.
I know, isn't it fabelhaft?
Meet Fritz Wendel, my oldest friend in Berlin. Brian Roberts.
He's a divine playboy, hurtling from party to party.
You mustn't believe Sally. I am a most serious man of business.
Listen, Fritz is crazy to improve his English, so he can dazzle fat American divorcees. Sally!
I said you might give him lessons.
Ja. Darling, give me a cigarette.
Ein Moment.
You've GOT to try one of these. They're absolutely devastating. They make me feel WILDLY sensual.
Bis spater.
She's hot stuff, yes?
No, thank you.
DRUM ROLL
Ja, ja, meine Damen und Herren...
You're not mistaking me. We do not sleep on each other. That is correct? On?
With. With. With.
Zu meiner Linken, Lieselotte.
72 kilos.
Her father, you know,
is a big ambassador from Washington.
An ambassador? Yes, dear chap.
Soon, with her, I think I am
entering high diplomatic circles.
Strict rules will be obeyed.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS
Sally tells me you are from Oxford University. A professor of language.
It's Cambridge, actually, and I'm still working for my Doctor of Philosophy. That's why I'm here.
If you really want lessons,
I'd be pleased to help. Excellent.
Pour le sport!
BELL CLANGS
If it's not too expensive. Business is terrible.
The inflation...the Communists, the Nazis.
Soon I am with a tin cup too. >
Or I make a rich marriage.
That at least is sensible.
CROWD SCREAM WITH LAUGHTER
'I suppose you're wondering why I'm working in the Kit Kat Klub? It IS unusual.'
That's me, unusual places and love affairs.
I AM a most strange and extraordinary person.
Now, tell me all about you. I want to hear EVERYTHING.
Everything? Absolutely everything.
Well, there's nothing dramatic to tell.
Since coming from Cambridge... Lya de Putti. My favourite screen siren.
When I left... I'm going to be a great film star.
That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
Do I shock you? No. I don't?
Since Mother died we're even closer.
He's an ambassador? Who told you that? Fritz Wendel.
He's practically an ambassador.
Where is he now? Oh, who knows? Timbuktu, Outer Mongolia?
He dashes all over the globe on momentous affairs of state.
Then you don't see much of him. Oh, darling, of COURSE I do!
He's always swooping down and carrying me off for divine vacations.
Hmmm, the Riviera, Capri.
Have you ever slept with a dwarf?
Once, but it didn't last.
'Oh, I know I can sing,'
but I really want to be an actress.
Like, er...who was it? Lya de Putti?
Oh, darling, I could act HER right off the screen!
I thought she was your favourite. She makes too many faces.
No, please. We made an agreement.
Danke schon.
Just you wait, one of these days Max Reinhardt will drift into the club.
Well, you never know. That's right, you don't.
It HAS happened before.
Last week, a friend of the head
of casting for UFA joined me...
TRAIN WHISTLES
Oh!
Oh, come on. Come on! Run!
Run!
TRAIN RUMBLES OVERHEAD
RUN!
SHE SCREAMS
Oh!
Excuse me, miss.
Didn't you just scream?
Does my company upset you so much?
D'you know, sometimes I come here and wait, just especially. You should try it sometime.
Mmmm?
Yes.
Me?
You. No!
Yes, you. No.
Aw, go on. I couldn't possibly.
Don't be so British. ..No.
You feel terrific afterwards. No.
You know you want to. No, I don't.
WHISTLE OF TRAIN
Here comes one now.
No. Mm'mm.
Will you do it? Yes.
No, no, not yet!
Wait.
Are you ready?
Now!
TYROLEAN-TYPE MUSIC
I can't promise you but we can give it a try. Oh!
Meet Herr Ludwig.
Herr Roberts.
He's a marvellous publisher.
This book HAS to be translated and as you're a famous writer...
And it's fifty marks. Right? Hmmm.
Fabelhaft. It's all set.
It will be an honour to associate
with so talented a man of letters...
But.. This book, I assure you,
is most artistic and colourful...
25 marks in advance, right? Ja, ja.
The style... Is the water hot?
Mmm? Is there any hot water? Yes, a little.
I think you will find the style admirable and the subject matter, I feel, is universal.
Cigar?
No, thank you.
No, you must. It's finest Havana.
It's a deal?
Herr Ludwig, I'm afraid Sally's overestimated my powers of...
It's a deal.
That's it.
50 marks. Not bad, huh?
Do you know what this artistic book
is about? No. Tell, tell.
Pure pornography.
Of course, darling, all of his books are dirty. What's this one called?
"Cleo, Die Dame Mit Der Peitsche."
"Cleo, The Whip Lady."
You lied about the hot water.
I'm freezing. I'm freezing to death.
Hug me.
Tighter.
Brian, don't be so literal.
MUSIC ON PHONOGRAPH
Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?
Well, doesn't it?
It's a very nice body.
Do you really think so, darling?
It does have a certain kind of style. It's very flat here,
not much hips...
and...here...
It's a little early in the day for this sort of thing.
Maybe you just don't sleep with girls.
Oh. You don't.
We're practically living together,
so if you only like boys...
I wouldn't dream of pestering you.
Do you sleep with girls or not? Sally...
you don't ask questions like that.
I do.
All right...if you insist.
I do NOT sleep with girls.
No, no, let me be absolutely accurate.
I've gone through the motions of sleeping with girls... three times.
All of them disastrous.
The word for my sex life now is...nil.
Or, as you Americans would say, "plenty of nuthin'!"
All right?
WHY didn't you tell me in the first place?
Brian, you are absolutely my best friend.
And friends are much harder to find than lovers. Besides, sex always screws up a friendship, anyway.
So we won't let it! OK?
OK?
OK, Sally.
RECORD PLAYS AGAIN
You would have been, he would have been, they would have been.
Pluperfect tense. I have been...been. Oh, no, no.
If you did a little homework instead of gadding about town...
Fraulein Schneider, there's a new pupil coming at three. Would you show her up, please? Certainly.
They had been been. Future perfect. I shall ha...
I shall HAVE been. Ah, this English! I will now try to pull a deal.
Or I make business soon or I go as a gigolo.
Either, or. Either or I go as a gigolo.
Anyway, who is the new pupil?
Natalia Landauer.
Landauer?
Of the big department store? Uh-huh.
A Landauer? Mmm.
How did you meet a Landauer?
I had a letter of introduction from England.
They invited me for coffee. Invited you for coffee?
Landauers are enormous rich Jews.
Stinking rich, it seems.
Good. I shall make a pass after her.
What if she's fat and hideous?
Perhaps the father will take a liking from me and give me a job.
If I marry her, a partnership perhaps.
I'm not...I'm not prejudiced.
Hello.
You said you wouldn't be back till four. I MUST have a drink now!
Sally, the new pupil's due soon. Can't the drink wait? Only gin!
Sally, please... Three marks an hour. I need it. WE need it.
All I need is a drink. She's young
and very strictly brought up so...
I may have my TINY faults
but I'm not planning to white slave her. Whose room IS this anyhow?
Sally, in all fairness... Fairness?
Who cares about fairness?
Tut! Honestly.
Thank you. ..You're welcome.
Excuse me. How fat? Hmm? ..How fat?
Es ist schoen heute, Fraulein Landauer, nicht wahr?
Herein. Fraulein Landauer.
Oh, come in.
Good afternoon, Fraulein Landauer.
How nice to see you again. < It's nice to see you again.
Good. Others. So we shall make party for speaking English.
Oh! Well, actually, my friends were just leaving. No, no, no,
I'm delighted to stay, Brian.
Sally, you have this appointment, don't you? I'll cancel it. I LOVE parties!
Good! This is splendid for the practising. You will introduce me, please. Of course.
Herr Wendel, Fraulein Landauer.
Sehr erfreut, gnadiges Fraulein.
No, English conversation.
I'm so charmed, dearest miss.
This... This is Miss Sally Bowles.
How do you do?
Bobby, a Landauer in MY house!
Last summer, when I... I, eh...
You are all healthy, I hope.
Yes. Yes.
I've had a cold, but it is better now.
M'mm, good. How sad.
A cold from the nose is most aggravating.
This was a cold of the bosom, NOT of the nose.
All the pleg-m was here. The what?!
Ze pleg-m that comes in the toobs.
I think I'm going to be sick!
Phlegm. Ph is always pronounced as f. And...you don't sound the g.
Why are they putting the g, please?
That's a very good question but rather difficult to explain.
Try, Brian.
Well, er...it's just there.
So, Mister Professor, you do not know? No.
Then I am sorry, I cannot help you.
It's... It's most amusing.
Very amusing.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Herein.
How thoughtful, Fraulein Schneider.
Thank you very much. You're most welcome, Herr Roberts.
Please.
- A cake, dearest miss? - I'm not eating between meals.
You're not eating between meals. I am eating between meals.
Thank you...SO much.
You're welcome.
Brian, Liebling, did I tell you about a film I saw
about syphilis. Too awful! I couldn't let a man touch me for a week!
Coffee?
Is it true you can get it from kissing? Oh, yes.
And Henry VIII caught it from
letting Wolsey whisper in his ear.
That is not founded in fact.
But from kissing, most decidedly, and from towels
and from cups.
And, of course, screwing.
Screwing, please?
Oh, er...fornication.
Fornication?
Darling, what IS the German word? I don't remember.
Eh...
Oh, yes! Oh, no.
Bumsen.
Oh.
It WOULD be the one German word you pronounce perfectly. I ought to.
I spent an afternoon bumsening with
some ghastly producer who promised
to give me a contract!
Gin, Miss Landauer?
Fritz is overdoing it a bit, isn't he? Natalia's very rich, Fritz is very broke.
That old hand-kissing routine isn't going to get him anywhere!
The only thing to do with virgins is to make a ferocious pounce!
Pounce on Natalia?! It would be effective.
NATALIA: You are a woman of many sexual experiences. I'll say! Men find me irresistible.
Daddy was always worrying... Yes? You know.
How's the gigolo campaign going? Terrible.
This week already I'm giving up
three dinner invitations to spend
32 marks on her. Quite a sacrifice!
And here is the craziness. I like it.
Goddammit! What?
I think I'm falling in love with her. I'm so sorry. So am I.
RADIO:
'Gestern Abend, wurden vor dem Hause
Wiklefstrasse, Nummer vierzig
'einige Mitglieder der Sozialen Arbeiterjugend von etwa 100 SA Leuten
'uberfallen und misshandelen. Es gelang der Polizei drei Nazis zu verhaften.'
You assure me the English reader will find this...arousing, stimulating?
Well, I...
Yes. Yes, I should think so.
Look, everybody, positively a nun's hands, aren't they?
You look lovely, Sally.
Just lovely.
Thank you. Well, I'm off to the Adlon
to see my sexy, marvellous, devastating father.
Auf Wiedersehen, my darlings. Auf Wiedersehen.
Good luck.
Well, I'm terribly sorry but I couldn't possibly find any more of them!
Good night and thank you so much for a delightful evening.
You're most welcome, Herr Roberts.
Good night. Good night.
It really has been sublime.
Thank you.
Dearest miss.
Do you see how she is with me? You see that kiss? Did you see it?
No, I was too discreet to look back. I go crazy with the frustration.
I kiss and inside me comes the explosion. But her...!
Brian, I tell you a simple fact and I'm not boosting. Boasting.
Mmm. The French women,
the Swedish women, even the English,
they go wild for my kisses.
But...this one.
Nothing?
Nothing.
And I'm a crazy, love-sick fool.
Sally says you ought to pounce.
Pounce?
Throw her on a couch or something.
To attack Natalia?
Unmoglich.
Well, Sally is rather knowledgeable
in these areas. Sally!
You do what Sally says and end up, I think, in the prison cell.
Pounce, huh? ..Pounce.
SHE WHISTLES QUIETLY
How did it go?
Bad?
Sally, what is it?
I waited at the Adlon till ten.
When I got back there was this.
"Dear Sally, Sorry. Schedule revised at last minute.
Writing. Love."
These things happen. I'm sure he had a good reason.
Mmmm.
Ten words exactly.
After ten it's extra.
You see, Daddy thinks of these things.
If I had leprosy there'd be a cable.
"Gee, kid, tough.
"Sincerely - hope - nose - doesn't fall off. Love."
Bastard!
I'll show him.
I'll become a BIG film star.
The poor man. He TRIES to love me.
Perhaps even thinks he does.
But the REAL truth is that he just doesn't...care.
Maybe he's right, maybe I'm not worth caring about.
Maybe I am just noth...nothing.
You're a perfectly marvellous girl.
Oh, no!
And beautiful. Oh!
And talented. NO, I'm not! Yes.
Yes, you ARE.
Do you REALLY think so? I mean really? Yes.
Yes, I do.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, Brian.
# Maybe this time I'll be lucky
# Maybe this time he'll st-ay #
Obviously those three girls...
were just the wrong three girls!
# Maybe this time,
For the first time,
# Love won't hurry aw-ay #
Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?
Hmm-mmm.
# He will hold me fast
# H'h, I'll be home at last
# Not a loser any more
# Like the last time
And the time before
# Everybody - loves a winner
# So nobody loves me-e
# Lady peaceful, lady happy
# That's what I long to be-e
# Well, all the odds are... They're in my favour
# Something's bound to be-gin!
# It's gotta happen Happen sometime
# Maybe this time I'll wi-n!
# Cos everybody...
# Oh, they love a winner So nobody loves me
# Lady peaceful, LADY happy
# That's what I LONG to be
# Well, all the odds are... They're in my favour
# Something's bound to beg-in!
# It's gotta happen, Happen sometime
# Maybe this time...
# Maybe this time
# I'll wi-n! #
Hey, what's going on? Brian! I'm sorry, darling.
Tell him your lover is a gangster from Chicago.
Wiedersehen.
Have you told him? I did better than that. I just told him I had the teeniest touch of syphilis.
Wait till he gets a load of what little ol' Elke's got.
Landauer? Ja.
I am grateful that you came to me from my call. I'm all agog.
Danke schon.
You will eat food, please? Thank you.
You see, Fraulein... Sally.
Sally.
Our acquaintance is not long,
but I am choosing you, because I know no other young woman who is giving her body frequently to men.
My English!
I am rendering you an embarrassment?
No, no, I'm fascinated.
Fritz has declared love for me.
At first I am not taking him seriously.
He is so...so formal.
And also I think so much the gigolo who hunts for the fortune.
Is that what you say?
That's what we say all right.
Then...
the night before yesterday, my parents are from the house.
We are seated here, on my father's library sofa.
Suddenly, he throws aside the formalities. There is fire, passion. My God, he pounced!
Please? He...
He made love to you.
On my father's library sofa.
But even for that he is showing no respect. I am fighting, I am calling out harsh words.
But then... May we not be frank?
Suddenly...
all is equal fire... equal passion in me.
And since then, I think only of him.
Now, is this love or mere fatuation of the body?
You, with so many as you call, "screwings"...
shall please tell me the truth.
Please.
Does it matter as long as you're having fun?
How can you speak of fun? He wants us to marry.
That's wonderful. Why don't you?
Say to my father that I am marrying a man who is perhaps a fortune hunter?
A Christian, too.
This I think is breaking his heart.
Well, in that case, I guess
you better forget the whole thing.
Forget Fritz?
How am I ever forgetting Fritz? Look, I have to run along.
Oh, no...don't cry.
Oh, PLEASE, don't cry.
I'm no good at ALL if anybody cries.
Natalia, about Fritz pouncing...
You see, I thought...
..I didn't think.
How shall so grave a problem resolve itself?
(You poor thing.)
You can't marry him, you can't give him up.
I don't suppose you'd consider seeing him on the sly...
No, I didn't think so.
Oh, God...
it's enough to drive a girl into a convent.
Do they have Jewish nuns?
NEWS BULLETIN ON RADIO
Guten Tag. Oh, guten Tag.
Er...bitte, kann Sie...wasche...
Entschuldigung, Fraulein...
What? Sorry. I think you dropped this.
Yes, thank you.
Konnen Sie wasche...fur mich... em, Montag, Tues-tag?
Ich kann Sie nicht verstehen.
May I help you?
I want my laundry back by Tuesday.
Die junge Dame moechte ihre Wasche
bis Dienstag.
Ja. Selbstverstandlich.
It's OK. Thank you so much.
Maximilian von Heune.
Sally Bowles.
Do you have a cigarette? I'm absolutely desperate.
I must have left mine at the Club.
The Kit Kat Klub.
Divine decadence.
May I drop you somewhere? I have my car outside. All right.
Wiedersehen. Wiedersehen, darling.
(Money.) Money!
TOGETHER: # Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go ro-und
# A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound
Is what makes the world go around
# That clinking, clanking sound
Can make the world go ro-und.
Money, money, money, money
# If you happen to be rich... Money!
And feel like a nice entertainment
You can pay for a gay escapade
# If you happen to be rich and alone
And you need a companion
You can ring ting-a-ling for a maid
# If you are left by your lover
You can moan and groan quite a lot
# Call a cab and begin to recover
On your 14 carat yacht!
# Money makes the world go around World go around, the world go around
# Money makes the ! go around
# Of that we both are sure
On being poor
# Money, money, money, Money, money, money Money, money, money!
CLINKING AS THEY DANCE
# Money, money, money,
Money!
# Money, money, money
Money, money, money Money, money, money!
# When you haven't coal in the stove
And you freeze in the winter
And you curse to the wind and fate!
# When your coat's thin as paper And you look 30 pounds under weight
# The advice from the fat pastor
Will be to tell you
to love ever more.
# But when hunger raps at the window
RAT-A-TAT
The window. Who's there? Hunger! Hunger!
# See how love flies out the door!
# Money makes the world go around The world go around, the world...
# Money makes the world go around. That clinking, clanking sound of
# Money, money, money, money. Get a little, get a little
# A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound Clinking, clanking, clunking sound Is all that makes the world go round
# It makes the world go round! #
MUSIC: "Willkommen, bienvenu, welcome"
APPLAUSE
It's called Turkenblut.
Turk's blood. A famous German drink.
Oh! It's divine. I'll never drink anything else!
Prost, my friend.
Prost.
Well, mes enfants, you are like me, adrift in Berlin.
I think it's my duty to corrupt you, agreed?
Fascinating.
Let's go to the Kempinsky.
Darling, he's a baron. He never even told me.
Class!
He must know everybody. He could get me into films faster than you can say Erich von Stronheim!
In exchange for a little infidelity?
Don't worry, I can handle him.
Trust me. Just trust me, darling.
All right, DON'T trust me!
I had a marvellous time last night.
So did I.
Darling. Darling.
Bri, darling, wake up. We have a visitor.
Maximilian's here.
Bitte, wie spat ist es?
3.30! Sorry, Brian, we're late. We had a glorious time.
We didn't stop laughing. Don't look.
OK.
Isn't it fabulous? Ohhh. I feel just like Kay Francis.
Brian, WHY didn't you COME? We had the best time, so much fun!
Max really knows how to corrupt a girl! I try.
Not only did I get this, I got perfume, I got silk stockings...
And you got that funny blue hat. I think it's divine. I love it!
We didn't get anything for Brian.
I had no time to have it wrapped.
Darling, isn't that beautiful?
What makes you think I'd accept that?
To give me pleasure. Max loves buying.
You're a man of strong convictions.
Can we have caviar again? You had it for breakfast!
Can I have it for lunch?
For lunch, dinner, anything you want!
Drei Kaviar, bitte.
That's for me. What are you having?
Remember the lady with...?
And remember the car...?
Oh! You should have been there!
The Nazis are just a gang of stupid hooligans,
but we'll let them get rid of the Communists.
Later we'll be able to control them.
But who exactly is "we"? Germany, of course.
Max, can we go to the Bristol Bar? Yes. I'm dying to show off my coat!
I think I could do with a drink. Good. We'll make a night of it.
Berlin makes strange bedfellows these days.
Some people have one people, some have two.
Some even...
# Beedle deedle dee Two ladies
# Beedle deedle dee Und I'm the only man, ja
# Beedle deedle dee I like it Beedle deedle dee They like it
# Beedle deedle dee This two for one
# Beedle, deedle dee Two ladies Beedle, deedle dee Two ladies
# Beedle deedle dee Und he's the only man JA
# Beedle deedle dee I like it
# Beedle deedle dee We like it Beedle deedle dee
# This two for one!
# I do the cooking I make the beds
# I go out daily To earn our daily bread
# But we've one thing in common He She Und me
# The key # Beedle dee dee # The key Beedle dee dee The key!
Kommen! Come on.
Kommen!
Eins, zwei, drei! LOS!
# Two ladies
# Und he's the only man Ja! #
CROWD LAUGHS
Ohhh! Ohhh! Ohh!
# We switch partners daily To play as we please
# Twosies beats onesies But nothing beats threes
# I sleep in the middle I'm left Und I'm right
# But there's room on the bottom If you drop in some night!
Come on!
# Und I'm the only man, JA! Beedle deedle dee I like it
# Beedle deedle dee They like it
# Beedle deedle DEE This two for one
# Beedle deedle deedle dee dee! #
Wie geht es Ihrem Asthma? Immer das gleiche.
What'd he say? He's asking about his asthma.
Miss Bowles in Mother's room, Mr Roberts in the blue room.
Falls der gnadigen Frau die Kleider nicht angenehm sind...
Danke.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Herein.
Oh, no, help yourself.
Please.
I'm not quite sure but I think they're all mine.
This used to be my room before I was married.
Yes, looks familiar.
You can at least get out of that shirt.
Blue should be your colour.
Brian, not even a sweater?
Are you still married?
Very much so.
Where is your wife now?
In Cologne.
For the culture. She lends her support to the Arts.
She in her way...I in mine.
We have quite a special understanding.
That must be useful at times.
What about these?
I was right. Blue IS your colour.
Ich dachte Sie haben uns ganz vergessen.
Desert you?! Never.
I find it very interesting.
Your father must be a very important man.
He's practically an ambassador!
We have the most marvellous relationship.
The instant he can tear himself away he dashes to where I am!
Excellent. The food is always good.
Excuse me, but didn't we meet with Emile Jannings in UFA?
No... I find Emile tres amusant.
Money.
Careful.
Clara Bow. THAT's not Clara Bow.
It's early Clara Bow.
I got one, I got one.
Late Sally Bowles.
You two are marvellous. Have you ever been to Africa?
Where, mein Schatz? Africa. Let's go, the three of us. Smile!
MUSIC PLAYS ON GRAMOPHONE
Sally, you're really talented.
What? You're talented.
He wants to take us to Africa.
He must be insane!
More. Come on! Please, more, more.
That's all. More. Please!
Max. No, no. Please.
Oh, bravo, bravo!
Hey!
The king of the jungle!
THEY LAUGH
MUSIC STOPS
Brian, are you all right?
It's all right, darling. OK?
Mombasa's quite wonderful really.
Sounds absolutely exotic.
All the way through Tanganyika... Sure?
Sally, champagne? Hmm?
Every now and then the train stops
and there is a family of giraffes nibbling the trees
or a herd of zebra galloping off.
And thousands of flamingoes come in,
turning the whole sky pink. You'll be amazed when you see it.
Hey!
Hey, Sally! Are you quite comfortable?
Come on!
Sally is an endearing child.
But I must admit I find it peaceful when she's taking her nap.
To Africa?
To Africa.
# The sun on the meadow is summery warm
# The stag in the forest runs free
# But gather together To greet the storm
# Tomorrow belongs to me
# The branch of the linden is leafy and green
# The Rhine gives its gold To the sea
# But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
# Tomorrow belongs to me
# The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
# The blossom embraces the bee
# But soon, says a whisper, "Arise, arise!
# "Tomorrow belongs to me."
# Oh, fatherland, fatherland, Show us a sign
# Your children have waited to see
# The morning will come When the world is mine
# Tomorrow belongs, Tomorrow belongs
# Tomorrow belongs to me!
# Oh, fatherland, fatherland Show us the sign
# Your children have waited to see
# The morning will come When the world is mine
# Tomorrow belongs
# Tomorrow belongs to me
# Tomorrow belongs
# Tomorrow belongs to me. #
Do you still think you can control them?
# Oh, fatherland, fatherland, Show us the sign
# Your children have waited to see
# The morning will come When the world is mine
# Tomorrow belongs, Tomorrow belongs
# Tomorrow belongs to me
# Tomorrow belongs to me. #
Natalia!
Fritz, you frightened me.
I must speak to you. No, please go away.
I told you not to come. Please.
The situation is impossible.
We must not see each other any more.
Is it the money?
I DID think it was the money at first...but not now.
Now I know that you love me.
I know you're an honest man who would never, never lie to me.
Natalia, I beg of you, marry me.
I can't.
Is it your parents? Isn't it?
It's not my parents. It is me. It is you, too.
Fritz, be careful!
What am I doing?
I've never jumped on a running board before.
Are you all right?
Why won't you marry me?
Don't you see what is happening in Germany?
I'm a Jew, you are not.
Goodbye, dear Fritz.
MUSIC PLAYS ON GRAMOPHONE
Fahren Sie. Moment, Herr Baron.
Fahren Sie los, idiot!
I told Schneider we'd be gone for at least two months, maybe more.
She cried and cried and said she'd miss us.
I think she was only crying because she knows she can't get 50 marks
from anyone else for these rooms.
# Money makes the world go around... #
Where've you been? I've been packing for hours.
Have some champagne. Compliments of Max.
The laundry came back. It's there on the bed.
You know, Bri, it occurred to me...
I know I've handled Max brilliantly...
But what with the African moon... It would be funny if he asked me to become the next Baroness.
I've been looking for that for months!
Stranger things have happened.
I wouldn't dream of accepting him.
I WISH you could hear yourself sometimes! REALLY hear yourself!
Christ!
Aren't you ever going to stop deluding yourself? Hmm?
Handling Max!
Behaving like some ludicrous femme-fatale!
You're about as fatale as an after-dinner mint!
Oh.
Well, darling, we all know about your vast experiences
with les femmes, fatales or otherwise.
Why not just come out with it!
You can't STAND Maximilian cos he's everything you're not!
He doesn't have to give English lessons! He's rich.
And he knows about life.
He doesn't just read about it. He's suave and divinely sexy.
And he REALLY appreciates a woman.
Oh, screw Maximilian!
I do.
So do I.
You two bastards!
Two?
TWO.
Shouldn't that be THREE?
Your paper and your party are pure crap.
Was haben Sie gesagt? Das ist lauter Scheisse!
And so are you! Auslander?
THEY LAUGH
I hear you took on the Nazi party single-handed.
Only two?
HE MUMBLES
Sounds like cigarette? Hmm.
Feel up to a little surprise?
Poor thing, you're blind.
Here.
"Dear Sally and Brian," In that order, please note.
"I know you will forgive me, but I have to leave for Argentina immediately.
"It was fun, wasn't it?" Signed Maximilian.
Argentina, my ass.
Oh, he also sent this, 300 marks.
For the two of us.
It's a hundred and fifty each.
On an hour to hour basis that puts us on a par with Fraulein Kost.
Some gold-diggers, aren't we?
MUMBLES QUIETLY
Oh, Brian, I'm so sorry. Shh.
Oh, darl... OOH!
GIRLS SQUEAL
BAND STARTS PLAYING
Eins. Zwei. Drei. Vier. Funf. Sechs.
Sieben. Hallo!
DRUM ROLL
Juden!
MILITARY BEAT
CROWD LAUGHS
Juden! Juden! Juden! Juden!
APPLAUSE AND LAUGHTER
Anything the matter?
What is it, Sally? What's happened?
Goddammit, I'm gonna have a BABY!
Well, aren't you going to ask?
All right.
Whose is it? I don't KNOW!
I really don't know.
What are you going to do? Obviously, I can't have it.
The doctor I went to said he'll do it. But it's expensive.
He has to bribe somebody or other for some kind of certificate.
Oh, I don't know.
Well, there goes my fur coat.
RECORD STARTS PLAYING
I would like to marry you.
RECORD PLAYING: # Durch ein winziges Wort Heirat #
SALLY AND BRIAN LAUGHING OK, a touch of toothpaste. Yes.
A lot of gin...all whooshed up together. With this spiked Prairie Oyster, I thee wed.
To the future.
With any luck I'll get a Fellowship at Kings. What's that?
My college at Cambridge. You'll absolutely love it there.
I know I will.
It's crazy.
What? ME, wanting to be an actress.
I guess babies love you automatically, don't they?
They don't have much of a choice.
Oh, to you and the baby.
To me and the baby.
Probably is yours, but I don't suppose we'll ever know for sure.
So what?
You sure you don't mind?
Honestly?
Honestly.
Oh, Bri! To me and the baby! To you and the baby!
To you... Hmm. You. Me?
To me... and the baby!
Where are you going? I'll be right back.
Brian? Hmmm?
You are a most strange and extraordinary person. I know.
Ahem!
The proud father!
Good Lord, Fritz, you're on time.
I can't believe it.
How's Natalia?
Please, I do not speak of Natalia.
As bad as that? Bad.
Perhaps I cut myself at the throat. Prepositions, Fritz.
IN the throat? Just cut my throat.
I assure you, they're all in it together.
If all the Jews are bankers, how can they be Communists too? Subtle.
< Very subtle, Frau Kost. If they can't destroy us one way...
..they try the other.
You don't really believe that?
But you read it every day.
Ridiculous Nazi tripe! < It is an established fact,
that there exists a well-organised, International conspiracy
of Jewish bankers and Communists.
It's also an established fact that another well organised group exists of which you're a member,
The International Conspiracy of Horses' Arses.
I wish the Kaiser was back.
In those days we had order.
I expect Schneider will raise my rent after that exhibition. Oh, well, what the hell!
Now, the prepositions. What a black day I am meeting that girl!
I-I thought you loved her.
Love? Who's needing verdammtes love? Do you want to hear the big joke?
Do you want to hear it?
I am a Jew.
So?
To be a Jew in Germany? Only a fool is this, I think.
So, I come to Berlin... and I'm not a Jew.
How did you manage that?
Where it says in my papers "religion",
I am writing Protestant.
So, the work comes, the friends come,
the parties come.
Parties...
Mein Gott, whoever dreams that I'd fall in love with a Jewish girl?
Surely that solves your problem?
All you've got to do is tell... Do you understand nothing? This girl...
Do you know what she has done to me?
It's terrible!
She has turned me into an honest man.
"Oh, you're good," she says.
"A man of integrity who will never lie to me."
What does she do if I tell her now?
Well... I tell you what she does if I tell her. She kicks me out into the streets!
Don't be silly. She'd understand.
Anyway, what have you got to lose? What do I lose?
She kicks me out into the streets.
All my friends hear I'm a Jew, THEY kick me out into the streets.
Then a big Nazi with a club bangs me on the head!
Fritz, I really think you're underestimating Natalia.
What am I doing? I don't like whisky.
Look, just tell her. No, I can't.
What a coward am I.
Schoen.
MUSIC STARTS UP
# I know what you're thinking
# You wonder why I chose her
# Out of all the ladies in the world
# It's just a first impression
# What good's a first impression?
# If you knew her like I do
# It would change your point of vi-ew
AUDIENCE LAUGHS
# If you could see her through my eyes
# You wouldn't wonder at all
# If you could see her through my eyes
# I guarantee you would fall Like I did
# When we're in public together
# I hear society moan
# But if they could see her through my eyes
# Maybe they'd leave us alone
# How can I speak of her virtues?
# I don't know where to begin
# She's clever, she's smart, She reads music
# She doesn't smoke or drink gin Like I do!
# Yet, when we're walking together
# They sneer if I'm holding her hand
# But if they could see her through my eyes
# Maybe they'd all understand
# Why don't they leave us alone? #
AUDIENCE LAUGHS
Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs, ladies und gentlemen,
I ask you, is it a crime to fall in love?
Can one ever choose where the heart leads us?
All we ask is ein bischen Verstandnis - a little understanding.
Why can't the world leben und leben lasst?
Live und let - live.
# Oh, I understand your objection
# I grant you the problem's not small
# But if you could see her
through my eye-s #
(She wouldn't look JEWISH at all!)
I'm a Jew.
Harei...
FRITZ RESPONDS
Harei
..at mekudeshess
li b'taba'as. li b'taba'as...
zu kedass... zu kedass...
Moshe... Moshe...
ve'Yisroel. ve'Yisroel.
RADIO PLAYS: # ..Durch ein winziges Wort, Heirat. #
Brian, is anything wrong?
Lazy, that's all.
That's all? ..That's all.
Oh! Look what I found!
See?
We MUST be lucky.
Will you still love me when I'm blown up like a balloon?
Will my body drive you wild with desire?
Of course. Why not?
Bri, it's fantastic, isn't it?
Your life and my life solved in one fell swoop!
And all by the baby.
I guess it's just about the most significant baby the world has ever known...since Jesus.
It'll be a most strange and extraordinary baby, won't it?
GIRLS SCREAMING
DOOR OPENING
Good morning, darling.
Would you mind seeing if there's any brandy left?
Put an egg in it and we'll call it breakfast.
I suppose you wonder what on earth happened to me. Well, I'm afraid,
we made a night of it.
Where's your fur coat?
You did it, didn't you?
Did what, darling?
The abortion.
In God's name...why?
One of my whims?
Is that all you can say? "One of my whims"?!
What right...
If you wanna hit me, why not just hit me?
But...you wanted it,
didn't you?
Me and the baby!
I suppose Max Reinhardt did show up at the club, or was it the friend of a friend
of an assistant director who'd try to squeeze you into the chorus?
That is, if you went to bed with him.
You think that?
Yes.
Well, it's just as well, isn't it?
For you, for everyone.
Darling, would you be an angel and just let me get some sleep?
Tell me why you did it.
What is there to say? You've said it all.
Sally...
Please...I HAVE to know.
OK.
I'm self-centred, inconsiderate...
and what was the third adjective?
Oh, yes - I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
Oh, Bri, a dinky little cottage in Cambridge?
With a playpen in the bedroom, diapers on the towel rack.
How soon would it be before we started hating each other?
How soon would it be before I started dashing out disgracing myself at some...pub?
How soon would it be before y...
Before?
Say it.
Go on. You might as well now.
Forget it. Just forget it.
I see.
Bri...Brian!
I really do love you.
(Yes).
Yes, I think you DO love me.
Are you all right?
Is there anything I can... do for you?
No. I just think I'll sleep a little while.
Oh, shit!
Magazines?
No.
It's a long trip. Yes.
Chocolate?
..No.
Well, we seem to be here. Yeah.
Darling, I'd LOVE to come down onto the platform but there is that interview...
It may not amount to anything. But you never know.
Shocking.
I'll see you.
'Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs,
'ladies und gentlemen.'
I give you that International sensation, Fraulein Sally Bowles!
APPLAUSE
MUSIC STARTS
# What good is sitting alone in your room?
# Come hear the music play
# Life is a cabaret, old chum
# Come to the cabaret
# Put down the knitting, The book and the broom
# It's time for a holiday
# Life is a cabaret, old chum
# Come to the cabaret
# Come taste the wine, Come hear the band
# Come blow your horn, Start celebrating
# Right this way, Your table's waiting
# What good's permitting some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away?
# Life is a cabaret, old chum
# So come to the cabaret
# I used to have this girlfriend Known as Elsie
# With whom I shared Four sordid rooms in Chelsea
# She wasn't what you'd call A blushing flower
# As a matter of fact, She rented by the hour
# The day she died The neighbours came to snicker
# Well, that's what comes From too much pills and liquor
# But when I saw her Laid out like a que-en
# She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
# I think of Elsie to this very day
# I remember how she'd turn to me And say
# What good is sitting All alone in your room?
# Come, hear the music pla-y
# Life is a cabaret, old chum
# Come to the cabaret
# And as for me - huh! And as for me
# I made my mind up Back in Chelsea
# When I go...
# I'm going - like - Elsie!
# Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
# It isn't that long a stay
# Life is a cabaret, old chum
# It's only a cabaret, old chum
# And I LOVE
a ca-ba-ret! #
Meine Damen und Herren, ladies und gentlemen,
where are your troubles now?
Forgotten! I told you so.
We have no troubles here.
Here, life is beautiful.
The girls are beautiful.
Even the orchestra...is beautiful.
MUSIC: "Willkommen" tune
# Auf Wiedersehen
# A bientot... #
QUIET DRUM ROLL
DRUM ROLL BUILDS
CYMBAL CLASHES