Original subtitles

[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG]

[PEOPLE LAUGHlNG]

[PEOPLE CONTlNUE CHATTERlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG JAZZ TUNE]

[SlNGlNG] Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

Fremde, étranger, stranger

Glücklich zu sehen Je suis enchanté

Happy to see you Bleiben, reste, stay

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

lm Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN AND FRENCH]

MC [lN ENGLlSH]: Ladies und gentlemen.

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

MC [lN ENGLlSH]: Do you feel good?

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] l am your host.

[SlNGlNG] Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

lm Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret

Leave your troubles outside!

So life is disappointing? Forget it!

ln here...

...life is beautiful.

The girls are beautiful.

Even the orchestra is beautiful.

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC]

Beautiful.

And now presenting...

...the Cabaret girls.

Heidi.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Christine.

Mausie.

[MAN WHlSTLES]

Helga.

Betty.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Each and every one a virgin.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

You don't believe me?

Well, do not take my word for it.

Go ahead.

Ask Helga. Ha, ha, ha.

[YELPlNG]

Outside it is windy...

...but here, it is so hot.

[MC YELPlNG]

Every night we have the battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

So don't go away.

Who knows?

Tonight we may lose the battle.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC]

GlRLS [SlNGlNG]: Glücklich zu sehen Je suis enchanté

Happy to see you

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

lm Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[MC CONTlNUES SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] The Huber Sisters.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Und last but not least, die Spielknaben.

The Toy Boys. Und yours truly....

[SlNGlNG] Wir sagen

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

Fremde, étranger, stranger

Hello, stranger.

Ha-ha-ha.

CHORUS: Glücklich zu sehen Je suis enchanté

Happy to see you Bleiben, reste, stay

Wir sagen

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

lm Cabaret

Au Cabaret

To Cabaret

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[DOOR BELL RlNGS]

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[BRlAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Have you a cigarette, darling? l am desperate!

[lN ENGLlSH] Oh, yes.

-Yes, l think so. -Oh, fantastic.

You're American.

Oh, God, how depressing.

You're meant to think l'm an international woman of mystery.

Been working on it like mad, heh.

l was told there might be a room to rent here.

Not too expensive, l--

l hope.

Divine decadence.

-l'm Sally Bowles. -l'm Brian Roberts.

SALLY: Come in, Brian darling.

Oh.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Oh, God, l've even begun to think in German, heh.

-How long have you been here? -Forever.

-How long is that? -Almost three months.

lt's the most marvelous boarding house. Marvelous lodgers.

Everybody's broke, of course, but who isn't these days?

Now, there's Fräulein Mayr, who's a masseuse, for ladies only.

And there's Fräulein Kost, who's a terribly sweet streetwalker.

[WOMAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN ON RADlO]

Fräulein Kost, Fräulein Mayr.

Mayr tells Kost's fortune every morning. And it's always the same.

"You'll meet a strange man," which under the circumstances is a pretty safe bet.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Fräulein Kost's room. Oh, you can just imagine.

Here it is, darling.

Oh.

Well, what else do you need in a bedroom besides a bed?

Pupils. l've got to give English lessons to pay the rent.

Well, look, you can use my room for that.

See? Practically a suite. Come on in.

You'll adore these.

Prairie oysters, darling.

lt's an egg with Worcestershire sauce, all sort of whooshed up together.

Fifty marks with breakfast, even when l'm behind on the rent.

Divine, isn't it?

-Of course, l'm hardly ever in. -Why not?

Oh, well, l dash all day and l work late at the cabaret.

Now, these work instantly, even on the most sinister hangovers.

Of course, l may bring a boyfriend home occasionally, but only occasionally...

...because l do think that one ought to go to the man's room if one can.

l mean, it doesn't look so much as if one expected it, does it?

Exactly.

[JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

BRlAN: l see you've acquired a lot of worldly wisdom.

Oh, not wisdom, darling, instincts. l have ancient instincts.

And l have this strange, mystical...

...that-ish feeling about you.

So you're moving right in, okay?

-Okay? -Heh.

Okay.

Prairie oysters?

Cheers.

Peppermint prairie oyster?

Oh, you got the toothpaste glass.

[DRUMS ROLLlNG]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Ladies und gentlemen.

-The Kit Kat Klub is proud to present.... -The Kit Kat Klub.

A very beautiful young lady.

-She is so beautiful... MC: She is so beautiful...

-...and so talented, so... MC: ...and so talented, so....

[SALLY WHlSTLES]

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

MC: ...charming, l have only yesterday said, "l want you for my wife." Und she said:

MC & SALLY: "Your wife, what would she want with me?"

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

l give you that international sensation...

...Fräulein Sally Bowles.

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT MUSlC]

[SlNGlNG] You have to understand The way l am, Mein Herr

A tiger is a tiger Not a lamb, Mein Herr

You'll never turn the vinegar To jam, Mein Herr

So l do What I do

When l'm through Then I'm through

And l'm through Toodle-oo

Bye-bye

Mein Lieber Herr

Farewell, Mein Lieber Herr

lt was a fine affair But now it's over

And though l used to care l 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 l was a rover

You mustn't knit your brow You should have known by now

You'd every cause to doubt me Mein Herr

The continent of Europe ls so wide, Mein Herr

Not only up and down But side to side, Mein Herr

l couldn't ever cross it lf l 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

lt was a fine affair But now it's over

And though l used to care l 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 l was a rover

You mustn't knit your brow You should have known by now

You'd every cause to doubt me Mein Herr

Bye-bye, Mein Lieber Herr

[SlNGlNG lN GERMAN]

Bye-bye, Mein Lieber Herr

Bye-bye

Mein Herr

And bye-bye

Bye-bye, Mein Lieber Herr

Farewell, Mein Lieber Herr

lt was a fine affair But now it's over

And though l used to care l need the open air

You're better off without me

You're better without me

Mein

Herr

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG]

[lNAUDlBLE DlALOGUE]

[MOUTHS] Come over.

You know, you're really very good.

l know, darling, isn't it fabulous?

Listen, l want you to meet Fritz Wendel, absolutely my oldest friend in Berlin.

-Brian Roberts. -He's a divine playboy...

...hurtling from party to party, seducing everyone in all directions.

You mustn't believe Sally. l'm a serious man of business.

Making import-export with machineries.

SALLY: Ha, heh.

Listen, Fritz is crazy to improve his English so he can dazzle fat American divorcees.

-Sally. -And l said you might deign...

...to give him lessons. Yeah?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Darling, give me one of those cigarettes.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Oh, you've got to try one of these. They're absolutely devastating.

l'm sure they're filled with opium or something.

They make me feel wildly sensual.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[CROWD APPLAUDlNG]

FRlTZ: She's hot stuff, yes?

No, thank you.

[DRUMS ROLLlNG]

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

Oh, you're not mistaking me. We do not sleep on each other.

That is correct? "On"?

-"With." -"With." With.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[DRUMS PLAYlNG]

[lN ENGLlSH] 72 kilos.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Her father, you know, is a big ambassador from Washington.

-An ambassador? -Oh, yes, dear chap.

And soon, with her, l think l'm entering the high diplomatic circles.

Strict rules will be obeyed.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Sally tells me, sir, that you're from Oxford University.

-A professor of language. -Heh.

Well, it's, it's Cambridge, actually...

...and l'm still working for my doctor of philosophy.

-That's why l'm here. -Hmm.

But if you really want lessons, l'd be pleased to help.

Excellent.

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[BELL DlNGS]

lf it's.... lf it's not too expensive.

You know, business is.... Business is terrible.

The inflation, the Communists, the Nazis.

Soon l am with a tin cup too...

...or l make a rich marriage.

That at least is sensible.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[TOlLET FLUSHES]

SALLY: l suppose you're wondering what l'm doing...

-...working in a place like the Kit Kat Klub. BRIAN: lt is a rather unusual place.

That's me, darling, unusual places, unusual love affairs.

l am a most strange and extraordinary person.

Now, tell me all about you. l want to hear everything.

Everything?

Absolutely everything.

Well, there's nothing very dramatic to tell.

Since l've been down from Cambridge--

Lya De Putti. Absolutely my favorite screen siren.

-Well, when l left Cambridge, l-- -l'm gonna be a great film star.

That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

Do l shock you, darling?

Not a bit.

l don't?

SALLY: Since mother died, we're even closer.

BRlAN: He's an ambassador, l understand.

SALLY: Who told you that? BRlAN: Fritz Wendel.

SALLY: Oh, Fritz.

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, what are you talking about? Of course, l do.

He can't bear us being apart.

He's always swooping down and carrying me off for divine vacations.

Hmm, the Riviera, Capri.

Have you ever slept with a dwarf?

Once, but it wasn't a lasting relationship.

[TRAlN HORN TOOTlNG]

Oh, l know l can sing, but what l really want to be is an actress.

Like, uh.... Who is it?

Uh, Lya De Putti?

Oh, darling, come on. l could act her right off the screen.

l thought you said she was your favorite.

She makes too many faces.

-No, please. -We made an agreement.

Thank you.

Just you wait.

One of these days, Max Reinhardt is gonna drift into the club.

Well, you never know.

That's right, you never know.

lt has happened before.

Why, just last week, a man who's a very good friend...

...of the head of casting for UFA asked me to sit at his table, and he's--

[TRAlN HORN TOOTlNG]

Oh.

-Oh, come on. Come on. -What?

SALLY: Run, run!

-Run! BRlAN: Why?

[SCREAMlNG]

[PANTlNG]

Oh.

[LAUGHS]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Excuse me, miss...

...but didn't you just scream?

[SALLY LAUGHS]

Does my company upset you that much? Heh, heh.

You know, sometimes l come down here and just wait.

l mean, just especially.

-You should try it sometime. -Hm?

-Yes. -Me?

[CHUCKLES]

-You. -No.

-Yes, you. -No.

-Oh, go on. -l couldn't possibly.

Don't be so British.

-No. -You'll feel terrific afterwards.

-No. -You know you want to.

No, l don't. No.

[TRAlN HORN TOOTlNG]

-Here comes one now. -No. Uh-uh.

-Will you do it? -All right.

-Aah-- -No, no, not yet. Ha-ha-ha.

Okay, you ready?

Now.

[MAN GROANlNG AND GRUNTlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT MUSlC]

[MAN GROANlNG AND GRUNTlNG]

[LAUGHlNG]

[YELPlNG]

Hoo, hoo, hoo!

[AUDlENCE CHEERlNG AND APPLAUDlNG]

Whoo!

SALLY: l can't promise you anything, but we can give it a try.

Darling, l want you to meet Herr Ludwig.

He's just back from Hamburg.

He lives in the room off the kitchen. He's a marvelous publisher.

Look, he's got this book, and it's got to be translated.

And l told him what a famous writer you are.

-And it's 50 marks. Right? LUDWlG: Mm-hm.

[SALLY SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] lt's all settled.

lt will be an honor for me to associate with...

...so talented a young man of letters as Miss Bowles tells me.

This book, l assure you, is most artistic. Most artistic and color--

-Twenty-five marks in advance. Right? -Yeah, yeah.

SALLY: Oh.

l think you will find the style--

ls there any hot water left?

-Hot water? -Yes, yes, a little.

l think, Herr Roberts, you will find the style admirable...

...and the subject matter, l feel, is universal.

-Cigar? -No, thank you.

No, no, you must. lt's the finest Havana.

lt's a deal?

Well, Herr Ludwig, l'm afraid that Sally's rather overestimated my powers of....

lt's a deal.

[SALLY HUMMlNG]

That's it.

[DOOR OPENS]

Fifty marks. Not bad, huh?

Do you know what this artistic and colorful book's about?

No. Tell, tell.

lt's pure pornography.

But of course it is, darling. All of Herr Ludwig's books are dirty books.

Hmm. What's this one called?

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

Hmm?

[lN ENGLlSH] "Cleo, the Whip Lady."

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Oh. Tsk.

You lied about the hot water.

l'm freezing.

l'm freezing to death.

Hug me?

Tighter.

Mm.

Brian, don't be so literal.

[JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?

Well, doesn't it?

lt's a very nice body.

Do you really think so, darling?

lt does have a certain kind of style.

l mean, look, it's very flat here...

...not much hips, and...

...here....

lt's a little early in the day for this sort of thing, isn't it?

Maybe you just don't sleep with girls.

[MUSlC STOPS]

Oh. You don't.

Well, listen, we're practically living together, so if you only like boys...

...l mean, l wouldn't dream of pestering you.

-Do you sleep with girls or don't you? -Sally.

-You don't ask questions like that. -l do.

All right.

lf you insist.

l do not sleep with girls.

No, no, no. Let me be absolutely accurate.

l've gone through the motions of sleeping with girls exactly three times.

All of them disastrous.

The word for my sex life now is "nil."

Or as you Americans would say...

..."plenty of nothing."

All right?

Well, why didn't you tell me in the first place?

Look, Brian...

...you're absolutely my best friend.

And friends are much harder to find than lovers.

Besides, sex always screws up a friendship, anyway, if you let it.

So we won't let it. Heh. Okay?

Okay?

Okay, Sally.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

[JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

FRlTZ: You would have been, he would have been, we would have been...

...you would have been, they would have been.

BRlAN: Pluperfect tense.

FRlTZ: l have been-- Being.

Oh, no, no, no.

lf you did a little homework instead of gadding about all over town....

Fräulein Schneider, there's a new pupil coming at 3.

-Would you show her up, please? SCHNElDER: Certainly.

BRlAN: Oh, leave the door.

You had been being, they had been being....

Future perfect.

l shall have....

l shall have been. This English.

l go now to try to pull a deal.

Or l make business soon...

...or l go as a gigolo.

-"Either, or." -"Either, or," l go as a gigolo.

Anyway, who is the new pupil?

Natalia Landauer.

Landauer?

Of the big department store?

Uh-huh.

-A Landauer? -Mm-hm.

How did you meet a Landauer?

l had a letter of introduction from England.

They invited me for coffee.

lnvited you for coffee?

Landauers are enormous rich Jews.

Stinking rich, it seems.

Good.

l shall make a pass after her.

[CHUCKLES]

What if she's fat and hideous?

Perhaps the father will take a liking from me and give me a job.

lf l marry her, a partnership perhaps.

-l'm not.... l'm not prejudiced. -Hmm.

-Hello. BRlAN: You said you wouldn't be back till 4.

-l must have a drink this instant. BRlAN: Sally.

The new pupil's due at any moment. Can't the drink wait?

Oh, God, only gin.

Sally, please.

Three marks an hour. l need it.

-We need it. -All l need is a drink.

She's young and very strictly brought up, so--

Look, l may have my tiny faults...

...but l'm really not planning to white-slave her to Latin America.

Whose room is this, anyhow?

-Sally, in all fairness, you said-- -Fairness? Who cares about fairness?

Honestly.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

BRlAN: Excuse me. -How fat?

-Hmm? -How fat?

[SCHNElDER SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[BRlAN SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

Fräulein Landauer.

Oh, come in.

-Good afternoon, Fräulein Landauer. NATALlA: Good afternoon.

BRlAN: How nice to see you again. NATALlA: lt's nice to see you again.

Ah, it is good, you have others.

So we shall make a party for speaking English, yes?

Oh, well, actually, my friends were just leaving.

No, no, no, l'm delighted to stay, Brian.

Sally, you have this appointment, don't you?

l'll cancel it. l love parties.

Good, this is splendid for the practicing.

You will introduce me, please.

Oh, yes, of course.

Herr Wendel, Fräulein Landauer.

[FRlTZ SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

No, no, English conversation.

[lN ENGLlSH] l am so charmed, dearest miss.

And, uh, this...

...this is Miss Sally Bowles.

How do you do?

Bobby, a Landauer in my house.

Last summer when l....

l, uh....

l....

NATALlA: You are all healthy, l hope.

Yes.

l have had a cold, but it is better now.

SALLY: Oh, good.

How sad.

A cold from the nose is most aggravating.

This was a cold of the bosom, not of the nose.

-Oh. -All the "plegm" was here.

All the what?

The "plegm" that comes in the tubes.

l think l'm gonna be sick.

"Phlegm." P-H is always pronounced as F...

...and you don't sound the G.

Then why are they putting the G, please?

Heh, that's a very good question, but rather difficult to explain.

Try, Bri.

Well, uh....

lt's just there.

So Mr. Professor, you do not know?

No.

Then l'm sorry, l cannot help you.

[ALL CHUCKLE]

lt's most amusing.

[FRlTZ CHUCKLlNG]

Very amusing.

[KNOCKlNG ON DOOR]

[BRlAN SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

BRlAN [lN ENGLlSH]: Oh, how thoughtful of you, Fräulein Schneider.

Thank you very much.

SCHNElDER: You're most welcome, Herr Roberts.

FRlTZ: Please.

Please, you must take a cake, dearest miss.

l'm not eating between meals.

You're not eating between meals.

l am eating between meals.

Thank you. So much.

You're welcome.

Oh, Bri, Liebling, did l tell you?

l saw a film the other day about syphilis.

Oh, it was too awful.

l couldn't let a man touch me for a week.

Coffee?

-ls it true you can get it from kissing? -Oh, yes.

And your king, Henry Vlll...

...caught it from letting Cardinal Wolsey whisper in his ear.

That is not, l think, founded in fact.

But from kissing, most decidedly.

And from towels and from cups.

And, of course, screwing.

"Screwing," please?

Oh, uh, fornication.

Fornication?

Oh, Bri, darling, what is the German word?

l don't remember.

SALLY: Um....

-Oh, yes. -Oh, no.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

Oh.

That would be the one German word you pronounce perfectly.

Well, l ought to. l spent the entire afternoon "bumsening" like mad...

...with some ghastly old producer who promised to give me a contract.

Gin, Miss Landauer?

SALLY: Fritz is overdoing it a bit, isn't he?

BRlAN: Natalia's very rich. Fritz is very broke.

SALLY: That old heel-clicking, hand-kissing routine won't get him anywhere with her.

The only thing to do with virgins is to make a ferocious pounce.

BRlAN: Ha-ha, l can't imagine anyone pouncing on Natalia.

SALLY: That's why it would be so effective, darling.

NATALlA: You are a woman of many sexual experiences, l think.

SALLY: l'll say, darling. Ever since l was so high, men have found me irresistible.

-Daddy was always worrying that.... NATALlA: Yes?

SALLY: You know.

How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?

Terrible.

This week, already l'm giving up three dinner invitations...

...to spend 32 marks on her.

-That's quite a sacrifice. -Mm-hm.

And here is the craziness.

l like it.

-Goddamn it. -What?

l think l'm falling in love with her.

BRlAN: l'm so sorry.

FRlTZ: So am l.

[PlANO PLAYlNG SOFT MELODY]

[MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN ON RADlO]

You assure me the English reader will find this...

...arousing, stimulating?

Well, l, uh....

Yes, yes, l should think so.

SALLY: Look, everybody.

Positively a nun's hands, aren't they?

-You look lovely, Sally. -Just lovely.

Thank you. Well, l'm off to the Adlon...

...to see my sexy, marvelous, devastating father.

Auf wiedersehen, my darlings.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

Good luck.

Well, l'm terribly sorry, but l couldn't possibly find any more of them.

[ALL LAUGH]

Oh, good night, and thank you so much for a delightful evening.

You're most welcome, Herr Roberts.

-Good night. -Good night.

lt really has been sublime.

Thank you.

Dearest miss.

You see how she is with me?

You see that kiss? You see that kiss?

No, l-- l was too discreet to look back.

l think l go-- l go crazy with the frustration.

You know, l kiss and inside me comes the explosion. But her?

Brian, l tell you a simple fact...

-...and l'm not boosting. -"Boasting."

Hmm. The French women, the Swedish women, even the English...

...they go wild for my kisses, but...

[FRlTZ SlGHS]

...this one....

Nothing?

Nothing.

And l'm a crazy, lovesick fool.

Sally says you ought to pounce.

Pounce?

Oh, throw her on a couch or something.

To attack Natalia?

[FRlTZ SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

Well, Sally is rather knowledgeable in these areas.

Sally.

You do what Sally says and you end up, l think, in the prison cell.

Pounce, huh?

Pounce.

[BREATHlNG HEAVlLY]

Sally?

How'd it go?

Bad?

Sally, what is it?

SALLY: l waited at the Adlon till 1 0.

When l got back, there was this.

"Dear Sally:

Sorry, schedule revised at last minute.

Writing. Love."

Well, these things do happen.

-l'm sure he had a good reason. -Hmm.

Ten words. Exactly.

After 1 0 it's extra.

You see, Daddy thinks of these things.

lf l had leprosy, there'd be a cable.

"Gee, kid, tough.

Sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off.

Love."

That bastard!

l'll show him!

l'll become a big film star.

The poor man, he tries to love me.

Perhaps he even thinks he does.

But the real truth...

...is that he just doesn't care.

Maybe he's right. Maybe l'm not worth caring about.

Maybe l am just nothing.

[CRYlNG]

You're a perfectly marvelous girl.

SALLY: Oh, no.

-And beautiful. -No.

-And talented. -No, l'm not.

Yes. Yes, you are.

Do you really think so?

-l mean, really? -Yes.

Yes, l do.

[CHUCKLES]

Oh, thank you.

Oh, Brian.

[SlNGlNG] Maybe this time l'll be lucky

Maybe this time he'll stay

Obviously those three girls...

-...were the wrong three girls. Ha, ha, ha. -Just the wrong three girls.

[SlNGlNG] Maybe this time For the first time

Love won't hurry away

Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?

SALLY: Mm-hm.

He will hold me fast

l'll be home at last

Not a loser anymore

Like the last time And the time before

Everybody loves a winner

So nobody loved me

Lady Peaceful Lady Happy

That's what l long to be

Well, all the odds are They're in my favor

Something's bound to begin

lt's gotta happen Happen sometime

Maybe this time l'll win

Cause everybody Oh, they love a winner

So nobody loved me

Lady Peaceful Lady Happy

That's what l long to be

Well, all the odds are They're in my favor

Something's bound to begin

lt's gotta happen Happen sometime

Maybe this time

l'll win

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

-Hello? -Hey, what's going on?

Brian. l'm sorry, Willi insisted.

Tell him your lover is a gangster from Chicago.

SALLY: Hmm.

[lNAUDlBLE DlALOGUE]

[lNDlSTlNCT DlALOGUE]

-You told him? -l did better than that.

l just told him that l had the teeniest touch of syphilis.

[BOTH LAUGHlNG]

Wait till he gets a load of what little old Elke's got.

[BRlAN AND SALLY LAUGHlNG]

SALLY: Landauer? MAN: Yeah.

NATALlA: l am grateful to you that you came to me from my call.

SALLY: Don't be silly. l'm all agog.

[NATALlA SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[DOG WHlMPERS]

-You will eat food, please? -Oh, thank you.

-You see, Fräulein-- -Sally.

Sally.

Our acquaintance is not long, but l am choosing you...

...because l know no other young woman who is giving her body frequently to men.

Oh, my English. l'm rending you an embarrassment?

No, no, l'm fascinated.

Fritz Wendel has declared love for me.

At first l not taking this seriously.

He is so....

So formal.

And also l think so much...

...the gigolo who hunts for the fortune.

ls that what you say?

That's what we say, all right. Heh.

Then...

...the night before yesterday...

...my parents are from the house...

...und we are seated here...

...upon my father's library sofa.

Suddenly...

...he throws aside the formalities...

-...there is fire, there is passion. -Oh, my God.

-He pounced. -Please?

He....

He made love to you.

On my father's library sofa.

Und even for that, he is showing no respect.

l am fighting, l'm calling out harsh words, but then....

May we not be frank?

Suddenly...

...all is equal fire...

...equal passion in me.

And since then, l 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 of it.

Please.

Heh. Does it matter? As long as you're having fun.

How can you speak of fun?

He has asked me to marry him.

Well, that's wonderful. Why don't you?

And say to my father that l am marrying a man who is perhaps a fortune hunter?

And a Christian too.

Oh, this, l think, is breaking his heart.

Well, in that case, l guess you better just forget the whole thing.

NATALlA: Forget Fritz?

-How am l ever forgetting Fritz? -Look, l really have to be running along.

[NATALlA CRYlNG]

Oh, no.

Don't cry.

Oh, please, don't cry.

l'm no good at all if anybody cries.

Natalia, about Fritz pouncing...

...you see, l thought....

l 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.

l don't suppose you'd ever consider seeing him on the sly every now....

No, l didn't think so.

My God, it's enough to drive a girl into a convent.

Do they have Jewish nuns?

[MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN ON RADlO]

[BOTH SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[MAXlMlLLlAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

SALLY [lN ENGLlSH]: What?

[lN ENGLlSH] l think you dropped this.

Yes, thank you.

[BOTH SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Yes, but-- -Excuse me, may l help you?

l want-- l want my laundry back by Tuesday.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Well, it's okay.

Thank you so much.

Maximilian von Heune.

Sally Bowles.

Do you have a cigarette? l'm absolutely desperate.

l must have left mine at the club.

The Kit Kat Klub.

Divine decadence.

MAXlMlLlAN: May l drop you somewhere? l have my car outside.

All right.

Auf wiedersehen, darling.

Money.

[BOTH SlNGlNG] Money makes the world go around

The world go around The world go around

Money makes the world go around lt makes the world go round

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound

-A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound -A buck or a pound

ls all that makes the world go around

That clinking, clanking sound Can make the world go round

Money, money, money Money, money, money

lf you happen to be rich And you feel like a night's entertainment

You can pay for a gay escapade

lf you happen to be rich and alone And you need a companion

You can ring, ding-a-ling, for the maid

lf you happen to be rich And you find you are left by your lover

And you moan and you groan quite a lot

You can take it on the chin Call a cab and begin to recover

-On your 14-carat yacht -What?

Money makes the world go around

The world go around The world go around

Money makes the....

[BELL DlNGS]

Go around Of that we both are sure

On being poor

Money, money, money Money, money, money

[BELL DlNGS]

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[BELL DlNGS]

Money, money, money Money, money, money

Money, money, money

[BELLS CHlMlNG]

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[BELL DlNGS]

[BELLS CHlMlNG]

[BELLS DlNGlNG]

[BELLS RlNGlNG]

Money, money, money Money, money, money

Money, money, money, money Money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money

When you haven't any coal in the stove You freeze in the winter

And you curse to the wind at your fate

When you haven't any shoes on your feet Your coat's thin as paper

And you look 30 pounds underweight

When you go to get a word of advice From the fat little pastor

He will tell you to love evermore

But when hunger comes to rap Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window

-At the window. -Who's there?

-Hunger. -Oh, hunger!

See how love flies out the door

Money makes the world go around The world go around, the world

[BELLS CHlMlNG]

Money makes the world go around The clinking, clanking sound

Money, money, money, money Money, money, money, money

Get a little, get a little Money, money, money, money

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound That clinking, clanking, clunking sound

ls all that makes the world go round lt makes the world go round

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[PLAYlNG SOFT MELODY]

[APPLAUSE]

MAXlMlLlAN: lt's called Türkenblut.

"Turk's blood." A famous German drink.

SALLY: Oh.

Ah, it's divine. l'll never drink anything else.

Prost, my friend.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

Well, mes enfants, you are, like me, adrift in Berlin.

l think it's my duty to corrupt you. Agreed?

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

Fascinating.

Let's go to the Kempinski.

SALLY: Darling, he's a baron.

He never even told me.

Class.

He must know everybody.

l bet a man like that could get me into films faster than you can say Erich von Stroheim.

ln exchange for a little infidelity.

MAN: A little infidelity? ldiot.

Don't worry, l can handle him.

Trust me. Just trust me, darling.

All right, don't trust me.

[GLASSES CLlNKlNG]

l had a marvelous time last night.

So did l.

Darling.

-Darling. -Hmm?

Bri, darling, wake up.

We have a visitor. Maximilian's here.

[BAND LlVELY PLAYlNG MUSlC]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

SALLY: Three-thirty. Heh. MAXlMlLlAN: Sorry, Brian, we're late.

SALLY: Oh, darling, we had the most glorious time.

MAXlMlLlAN: We didn't stop laughing, heh. -Don't open your eyes.

Don't look. Okay.

lsn't it fabulous? Oh!

-l feel just like Kay Francis. -Heh, heh, heh.

Oh, Bri, why didn't you come? We had the best time. lt was so much fun.

[LAUGHlNG]

-Max really knows how to corrupt a girl. -l try.

[CHUCKLES]

SALLY: Not only did l get this glorious pelt...

...l got perfume, l got silk stockings--

And you got that funny little blue hat.

SALLY: Oh, you call it funny.

l think it's divine. l love it.

Oh, God, we didn't get anything for Brian.

MAXlMlLlAN: l'm afraid l had no time to have it wrapped.

Darling, isn't that beautiful?

What on earth makes you think l'd accept that?

-To give me pleasure. -Max loves buying things.

Brian, you're a man of strong convictions.

Can we have caviar again?

MAXlMlLlAN: But you had it for breakfast.

SALLY: Can l have it for lunch?

For lunch, for dinner, breakfast again. Anything you want.

[SALLY AND MAXlMlLlAN LAUGH]

Uh, dry caviar, bitter.

That's for me. What are you having?

[SALLY AND MAXlMlLlAN LAUGHlNG]

The lady, with the thing--

And we were in the car and she came--

[SALLY AND MAXlMlLlAN LAUGHlNG]

You should have been there.

MAXlMlLlAN: The Nazis are just a gang of stupid hooligans...

...but they do serve a purpose.

Let them get rid of the Communists. Later we'll be able to control them.

-But who exactly is "we"? MAXlMlLlAN: Germany, of course.

SALLY: Hey, Max, can we go to the Bristol Bar?

-Why not? SALLY: Oh, wonderful.

l'm dying to show off my new coat.

BRlAN: l think l could do with a drink too. MAXlMlLlAN: Good.

We'll make a night of it. Or why not a weekend?

MC: Berlin makes strange bedfellows these days.

Some people have one people. Some have two.

Some even....

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

[SlNGlNG] Two ladies

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

Two ladies

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

Und l'm the only man, ja

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

l like it

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

They like it

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

This two-for-one

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[MC HUMMlNG]

WOMEN: Two ladies

[MC HUMMlNG]

WOMEN: Two ladies

[MC HUMMlNG]

WOMAN: And he's the only man -Yeah

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

l like it

[HUMMlNG]

GlRLS: We like it

[ALL HUMMlNG]

This two-for-one

[BlRDS CHlRPlNG]

l do the cooking

Ah!

GlRL 1 : l 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 -Diddily-dee

The key

Ooh!

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Come on, come on.

[ALL SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

ALL: Whoo!

[ALL CHATTERlNG]

Two ladies

-Und he's the only man -Yeah

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[MC LAUGHS THEN GROWLS]

[WOMEN LAUGHlNG]

Whoo! Ha, ha, ha!

[WOMEN GASPlNG AND MOANlNG]

We switch partners daily To play as we please

-Twosies beats onesies -But nothing beats threes

l sleep in the middle

-l'm left -Und I'm right

But there's room on the bottom lf you drop in some night

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

Two ladies

MC: Come on.

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Und l'm the only man, ja

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

l like it

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

They like it

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

This two-for-one

[WOMEN HUMMlNG]

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[MAXlMlLLlAN & MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

SALLY: What'd he say? -He's asking about his asthma.

MAN: Miss Bowles in Mother's room, l thought.

Mr. Roberts in the blue room.

[MAXlMlLlAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[MAlD SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[SALLY SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[KNOCKlNG ON DOOR]

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

No, no, help yourself.

Please.

l'm not quite sure, but l think they're mine.

This used to be my room before l was married.

Heh, looks familiar.

You can at least get out of that shirt.

Try this one. Blue should be your color.

Brian, not even a sweater?

Are you still married?

Very much so.

-Where is your wife now? -ln Cologne.

For the culture.

She lends her support to the arts.

She in her way, l in mine.

We have quite a special understanding.

That must be useful at times.

[MAXlMlLLlAN CHUCKLES]

What about these?

l was right. Blue is your color.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

My dear Stephanie, l would never desert you.

l find it very interesting.

Your father must be a very important man, Miss Bowles.

Oh, l'll say, darling. He's practically an ambassador.

We have the most marvelous relationship.

The instant he can tear himself away, he dashes to wherever l am.

[SALLY LAUGHS]

Oh, it's excellent, excellent. But the food here is always good.

Excuse me, but didn't we meet with Emil Jannings at UFA last winter?

MAN: l don't-- -You do know Emil, don't you?

Ah, l find him trés amusant.

Money.

SALLY: Ha, ha, ha. MAXlMlLlAN: Be careful!

SALLY: Clara Bow.

BRlAN: That's not Clara Bow. SALLY: lt's early Clara Bow.

[MAXlMlLlAN AND SALLY LAUGHlNG]

Wait, l got one. l got one.

Late Sally Bowles. Ha, ha, ha.

BRlAN: You said it.

MAXlMlLlAN: You two are marvelous.

Have you ever been to Africa?

[SALLY COUGHS]

Where, mein Schatz?

Africa.

Let's go, the three of us. Smile, Brian.

[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

MAXlMlLLlAN: Sally, you're really talented. SALLY: What?

MAXlMlLLlAN: You're talented. -Oh!

He wants to take us to Africa.

He must be insane.

More! Come on, please! More, more, more! Please!

-That's all. MAXlMlLlAN: More!

-More, please! -More! More!

SALLY: Come on, Max. -No, no. No.

Oh, please?

Oh, bravo, bravo.

BRlAN: Hey.

The king of the jungle.

[YELPlNG]

[SALLY LAUGHS]

[MAXlMlLLlAN CHUCKLlNG]

[MUSlC STOPS]

[SALLY CHUCKLES]

Hey, Brian, you all right?

BRlAN: Sorry. SALLY: Oops.

lt's all right, darling.

You okay?

[SALLY GRUNTS]

SALLY: Oh, darling.

Mombasa's quite wonderful, really.

l mean, the way ports are all over the world.

-Sounds absolutely exotic. MAXlMlLLlAN: Heh, heh, heh.

MAXlMlLlAN: All the way through Tanganyika and Uganda.

Sure?

Sally, champagne? Hmm?

MAXlMlLlAN: Every now and then, the train stops in the middle of nowhere...

...and right there is a family of giraffes, nibbling the trees...

...or a herd of zebra galloping off in a cloud of dust.

And when the flamingos come in, thousands and thousands of them...

...turning the whole sky pink.

You'll be amazed when you see it.

Hey! Hey, Sally.

-Are you quite comfortable? SALLY: Hmm.

[BRlAN AND MAXlMlLlAN LAUGHlNG]

Come on.

-Oh! -Ha, ha, ha.

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT MUSlC]

[lNAUDlBLE DlALOGUE]

[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG]

Sally has an endearing charm...

...but l must admit l find it peaceful when she's taking her nap. Heh, heh.

To Africa.

MAN [SlNGlNG]: 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 ls 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

ALL: "But soon," says a whisper, "arise, arise"

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

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

Tomorrow belongs to me

Tomorrow belongs Tomorrow belongs

Tomorrow belongs to me

Do you still think you can control them?

PEOPLE: 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

-Natalia. -Fritz, you frightened me.

l'm sorry, but l must speak to you.

No, no, go away. Please, go away. l told you not to come.

Natalia, please.

[ENGlNE STARTS]

The situation is impossible.

We must not see each other anymore.

ls it the money? ls it that?

l did think it was the money at first.

But not now.

Now l know that you love me.

l know you are an honest man who would never, never lie to me.

Natalia, l beg of you, marry me.

l can't.

ls it your parents? lsn't it?

lt's not my parents. lt is me.

[ENGlNE REVS]

lt is you too.

Fritz, be careful!

[TlRES SCREECH]

What am l doing?

l'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 today?

l'm a Jew.

You are not.

Goodbye, dear Fritz.

[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

[CAR DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]

[CAR HORN HONKS]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[DRlVER SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

SALLY: Hmm.

l told Schneider we'd be gone for at least two months, maybe more.

She cried and cried and said she'd miss us.

The only reason she was crying is she knows...

...she can't get 50 marks a month from anybody else for these pitiful little rooms.

You know:

[SINGING] Money makes the world go around The world go--

Where have you been? l've been packing for hours.

Have some champagne, darling. Compliments of Max.

Oh, your laundry came back. lt's over there on the bed.

You know, Bri, it occurred to me.

l know l've handled Max brilliantly...

...but enough with the African moon.

l mean, it would be funny, wouldn't it...

...if he asked me to become the next Baroness von Heune und Regensburg?

l've been looking for that for months. l mean, stranger things have happened.

[MUSlC STOPS]

l wouldn't dream of accepting him, of course.

For God's sake, l wish you could hear yourself sometimes.

l mean, really hear yourself.

Christ!

Aren't you ever gonna stop deluding yourself? Hmm?

"Handling Max."

Behaving like some ludicrous little underage femme fatale.

You're about as fatale as an after-dinner mint.

Oh, heh.

Well, darling, we all know...

...about your vast experiences with les femmes...

...fatales or otherwise.

Look, why don't you just come out with it?

You can't stand Maximilian because he's everything that you're not.

He doesn't have to give English lessons for 3 marks an hour.

He's rich.

And he knows about life. He doesn't read about it in books.

He's suave and he's divinely sexy.

And he really appreciates a woman.

Oh, screw Maximilian!

l do.

[SlGHS]

So do l.

You two bastards!

Two?

Shouldn't that be three?

[DOOR SLAMS]

[POLlCE SlREN WAlLlNG]

[MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

l think your paper and your party are pure crap, sir.

[MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

l said:

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] And so are you.

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[MAN LAUGHlNG]

[SALLY CHUCKLES]

l hear you took on the entire Nazi party single-handed.

Only two? Ha, ha, ha.

[MUMBLES]

-Sounds like "cigarette"? -Hmm.

-Feel up to a little surprise? -Hm.

[SlGHS]

You poor thing, you're blind.

Here.

"Dear Sally and Bri." ln that order, please note.

"l know you will forgive me, but family affairs make it imperative...

...for me to leave for Argentina immediately.

lt was fun, wasn't it?" Heh.

Signed, "Maximilian."

Argentina, my ass.

Oh, he also sent this.

Three hundred marks.

For the two of us.

lt's $1 50 each.

Let's see, on an hour-to-hour basis...

...that puts us about on a par with Fräulein Kost. Heh, heh.

Some gold-diggers, aren't we?

BRlAN: Hmm.

-Oh, Brian, l'm so sorry. -Shh.

-Oh, darling. -Oh!

[BRlAN GRUNTlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT MUSlC]

ALL: Whoo!

[DANCERS CHEER]

-Whee! -Whoo!

[DANCERS SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[LAUGHlNG]

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[MC GlBBERlNG]

[CROWD CHANTlNG lN GERMAN]

[GASPS]

[DRUM ROLLlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG MARCHlNG TUNE]

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[LAUGHlNG]

BRlAN: Hello.

Something the matter?

What is it, Sally? What's happened?

Goddamn it, l'm gonna have a baby!

SALLY: Well, aren't you gonna ask?

BRlAN: All right.

-Whose is it? SALLY: l don't know!

l really don't know.

BRlAN: What are you going to do? SALLY: Obviously, l can't have it.

The doctor l went to said he'll do it.

But it's expensive.

He has to bribe somebody or other for some kind of a certificate or something.

Oh, l don't know.

Well, there goes my fur coat.

[SOFT JAZZ MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

l would like to marry you.

[SOFT MUSlC PLAYlNG ON RECORD]

[SALLY LAUGHlNG]

BRlAN: Eggs.

-A touch of toothpaste. SALLY: Naturally.

BRlAN: A lot of gin. -Ha, ha, ha.

BRlAN: All whooshed up together.

[SALLY LAUGHlNG]

BRlAN: With this spiked prairie oyster, l thee wed.

SALLY: To the future.

BRlAN: With any luck, l'll get a fellowship at King's.

SALLY: Oh, dear, what's that?

My college at Cambridge.

-You'll absolutely love it there. -Oh, l know l will.

-lt's crazy. -What?

Me. Wanting to be an actress. Heh, heh.

l guess babies love you automatically, don't they?

[BOTH LAUGH]

They don't have much of a choice.

[LAUGHlNG]

-To you and the baby. -To me and the baby.

Probably is yours.

But l don't suppose we'll ever know for sure.

So what?

You sure you won't mind?

Honestly?

Honestly.

[CHUCKLES]

Oh, Bri.

-To me and the baby. -To you and the baby.

To you. You.

Me? To me.

-And the baby. -And the baby.

[BOTH LAUGH]

BRlAN: Mm, mm.

-Oh, where are you going? -l'll be right back.

-Brian! -Hmm?

You are a most strange and extraordinary person.

l know, l know.

[BRlAN CLEARS THROAT]

The proud father.

[BOTH LAUGHlNG]

[BOTH COUGHlNG]

[COUGHS]

[BOTH LAUGHlNG]

Good lord, Fritz. You're on time. l can't believe it.

How's Natalia?

Please, l do not speak of Natalia.

-Bad as that? -Bad.

Perhaps l cut myself at the throat.

Uh-huh. Prepositions, Fritz. Prepositions.

FRlTZ: "ln the throat"?

No, just "cut my throat."

LUDWlG: And l assure you...

...they're all in it together.

lf all the Jews are bankers, then how can they be Communists too?

Subtle.

Very subtle, Fräulein Kost.

lf they can't destroy us one way...

...they try the other.

You don't really believe that, do you?

But you read it every day in the Völkischer Beobachter.

That ridiculous Nazi tripe.

LUDWlG: lt is an established fact, Herr Roberts...

...that there exists a well-organized international conspiracy...

...of Jewish bankers and Communists.

lt's also an established fact, Herr Ludwig...

...there exists another well-organized group of which you're obviously a member.

The lnternational Conspiracy of Horses' Asses.

SCHNElDER: l wish the Kaiser was back.

ln those days we had order.

l expect Schneider will raise my rent after that little exhibition.

Oh, well, what the hell?

Let's get on with those prepositions.

What a black day that l'm meeting that girl!

BRlAN: l thought you loved her.

FRlTZ: Love, love, who's needing verdammtes love?

You want to hear the big joke on me?

You want to hear it?

l am a Jew.

-So? -To be a Jew in Germany?

Only a fool is this, l think.

So l come to Berlin and l'm not a Jew.

How did you manage that?

Where it says on my papers "religion"...

...l am writing "Protestant."

So the work comes.

The friends come.

The parties come.

The parties.

My God, whoever dreams that l shall fall in love with a Jewish girl?

Heh. But surely that solves your problem.

-All you've got to do is tell her-- -Do you understand nothing?

This girl!

Do you know what she has done to me?

lt'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."

[SlGHS]

What does she do if l tell her now?

l tell you what she does if l tell her now.

She kicks me out into the streets.

Oh, don't be silly. She'd understand.

Anyway, what have you got to lose?

What do l lose? She kicks me out into the streets.

All my friends hear l'm a Jew, they kick me out into the streets.

And then, l think, comes a big Nazi with a club and bangs me on the head.

Fritz, l really think you're underestimating Natalia.

What am l doing?

l don't like whiskey.

Look, just tell her.

No, l can't, l can't.

What a coward am l.

[SPEAKS lN GERMAN]

[BAND PLAYlNG JAZZ MELODY]

[SlNGlNG] I know what you're thinking

You wonder why l chose her

Out of all the ladies in the world

lt's just a first impression

What good's a first impression?

lf you knew her like I do

lt would change your point of view

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

lf you could see her through my eyes

You wouldn't wonder at all

lf you could see her through my eyes

l 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

[DRUMS lMlTATlNG HEARTBEAT]

How can l speak of her virtues?

l 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

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

Why don't they leave us alone?

[AUDlENCE LAUGHlNG]

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Ladies und gentlemen, l ask you, is it a crime to fall in love?

Can one ever choose where the heart leads us?

All we ask is...

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] A little understanding.

Why can't the world live...

[SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

[lN ENGLlSH] Live und let live.

[SlNGlNG] Oh, l understand your objection

I grant you the problem's not small

But if you could see her

Through my eyes

She wouldn't look Jewish at all

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[DOG BARKlNG]

FRlTZ: l'm a Jew.

[RABBl AND FRlTZ SPEAKlNG lN YlDDlSH]

[RABBl SlNGlNG lN YlDDlSH]

Brian, is anything wrong?

Lazy, that's all.

That's all?

That's all.

Oh! Look what l found.

See?

We must be lucky.

Will you still love me when l'm blown up like a balloon? Heh.

Will my body drive you wild with desire?

Of course. Why not?

Oh, Bri, it's fantastic, isn't it? Just think:

Your life and my life...

...solved in one fell swoop, and all by the baby.

l guess it's just about the most significant baby the world has ever known...

...since Jesus. Heh.

lt'll be a most strange and extraordinary baby, won't it?

[WOMEN SCREAMlNG AND CHEERlNG]

[TlCKlNG]

Good morning, darling.

Darling, would you mind awfully seeing if there's a bit of brandy left?

Put an egg in it and we'll call it breakfast. Heh.

[GROANS]

l suppose you wonder what on earth happened to me?

l'm afraid we made a night of it.

BRlAN: Where's your fur coat?

You did it, didn't you?

Did what, darling?

The abortion.

ln God's name...

...why?

One of my whims?

ls that all you can say?

"One of my whims"?

What right...?

lf you wanna hit me, why don't you just hit me?

But you wanted it.

Didn't you?

Me and the baby.

l suppose Max Reinhardt did show up at the club.

Or was it a friend of a friend of a friend of an assistant director...

...who said he'd try to squeeze you into the chorus line?

That is, of course, if you....

lf you went to bed with him.

-You think that? -Yes.

Well, then it's just as well, isn't it?

For you, for everyone.

Now, 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 in one way or another.

Sally, please.

l have to know.

Okay.

l'm self-centered, inconsiderate...

...and what was the third adjective?

Oh, yes.

And l have this infantile fantasy...

...that one day l'll amount to something as an actress.

Oh, Bri.

A dinky little cottage in Cambridge?

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 l started dashing out...

...and disgracing myself at some nearest pub?

How soon would it be before...?

Before?

Say it.

Go on.

You might as well now.

Forget it.

Just forget it.

l see.

Bri-- Brian.

l really do love you.

Yes. Yes, l think....

l think you do love me.

You all right?

ls there anything l can...

...do for you?

[CHUCKLES]

l just think l'll sleep a little while.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Oh, shit.

SALLY: Magazines?

BRlAN: No.

SALLY: lt's a long trip. -Yes.

Chocolate?

No.

-Well, we seem to be here. -Yeah.

l'd love to come down on the platform with you...

...and wave a tiny white handkerchief, etcetera...

...but there is that interview.

lt may not amount to anything...

-...but you never know. Ha, ha, ha. -You never know.

Shocking.

[CHUCKLES]

l'll see you.

[MAN SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN OVER PA]

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN]

MC: Ladies und gentlemen...

...l give you that international sensation...

...Fräulein Sally Bowles.

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[BAND PLAYlNG UPBEAT JAZZ MUSlC]

[SlNGlNG] 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

lt'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

l used to have this girlfriend Known as Elsie

With whom l 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 neighbors came to snicker

Well, that's what comes From too much pills and liquor

But when l saw her Laid out like a queen

She was the happiest corpse l'd ever seen

l think of Elsie to this very day

l remember how She'd turn to me and say

What good is sitting All alone in your room?

Come hear the music play

Life is a cabaret, old chum

Come to the cabaret

And as for me

I made my mind up Back in Chelsea

When l go

l'm goin' 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 l love a cabaret

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

[MC SPEAKlNG lN GERMAN AND FRENCH]

MC [lN ENGLlSH]: Ladies and gentlemen.

Where are your troubles now?

Forgotten? l told you so.

We have no troubles here.

Here, life is beautiful.

The girls are beautiful.

Even the orchestra is beautiful.

[PLAYlNG UPBEAT JAZZ TUNE]

[lNDlSTlNCT DlALOGUE]

[SlNGlNG] Auf wiedersehen

[DRUMS ROLLlNG]

[English - US - SDH]