Goodbye to Berlin

1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, poverty and excess. A lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by his landlady and her bohemian lodgers. He rooms with an English runaway and want-to-be star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles, and holidays on the Baltic coast with a repressed Englishman and his swaggering German lover. He is the elusive Herr Issyvoo, Mr Isherwood, Chris, Christoph, recording all in his `diary', dishing on the city's sexy, hungry nightlife, unable t...