Life beyond the ‘Cabaret’: Check out these queer films set in WWII Germany

A scene from “Great Freedom.”

Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!

The new Broadway production of Cabaret, which took the West End by storm, stars Eddie Redmayne as the very gay Emcee and Gayle Rankin as the tragic anti-heroine Sally Bowles. Set in Berlin on the cusp of Nazi Germany, Cabaret is a story about the end of the Weimer Republic and the final days of the and era where liberal, openly queer people flocked to local nightclubs and the arts communities. And while it might be the most well-known, Cabaret is far from the only queer story set against the backdrop of the rise of Nazi fascism

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