this incredible movie tell the story of germany slide towards nazi rule in the late 1920s or early 30 . the world of pre wwii berlin be see through the distorted mirror of the kit kat night club . while technically a musical and the movie do not use the contrivance of have people stop in the middle of a scene and burst out in song and dance . rather and the song and danges be integrate into the plot either by be perform on the cabaret stage or in some other natural manner include the bone chilling tomorrow belong to me . unlike most movie of the time ( include the vastly overrate godfather ) and director bob fosse do not keep the action entirely linear while rather event a will happen in scene 1 and you then have scene 2 deal with an unrelated issue and then the consequence of event a will be play out in scene 3. this let the viewer draw his own connection and rather than have everything spoon feed by the moviemaker . while the godfather un deservedly get best picture for 1973 and it get a total of only 3 oscar and while cabaret get 8 ( include best director ) make it the movie to have get the most oscar without also get best picture . it surely should have in 1973 or just about any other year .