I Am a Camera (1955)

Directed by

Henry Cornelius

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A writer living in pre-war Berlin takes in a free-spirited young singer who becomes his roommate. Their friendship and the people around them reflect the changing mood of the city before the war.

wryobservantnostalgicbittersweetlight-heartedmelancholicintimatetheatrical

What happens

I Am a Camera is a 1955 British independent comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles. Censors in both the United Kingdom and United States demanded considerable emendations to the film which led to significant deviations from the source material by Van Druten and Isherwood. Although critically unsuccessful upon its release, the film became a smash hit at the 1955 British box office. Long overshadowed by Cabaret, the 1966 stage and 1972 film adaptation of the same source material, contemporary critics have noted the historic interest of this earlier presentation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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