Joshua Oppenheimer was born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a producer and director, known forย The Act of Killingย (2012),ย The Look of Silenceย (2014) andย The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchaseย (1998).
Set in 1929โ1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as the Nazis rise to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American writer Clifford Bradshaw's relations with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles. A subplot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Frรคulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub, and the club itself serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in late Weimar Germany.
