Sally Bowles is a creature of extravagant attitudes, given to parading her vices and enormously confident that she is going to take life in her stride. She is fond of describing herself as an 'extraordinary interesting person,' and she is vaguely disturbing. As we get to know her, as we watch her make frightened arrangements for an illegal operation, seize at the tinseled escape offered by a rich and worthless American playboy, attempt to rehabilitate herself and fail ludicrously.

I am a Camera is based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood and in turn is the play which inspired the Broadway hit Cabaret and catapulted Liza Minelli into a worldwide stardom. This uproarious, poignant and rewarding drama received the Critics Award in 1952.