I Am a Camera (film)

I Am a Camera
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Directed by	Henry Cornelius
Screenplay by	John Collier
Based on	The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (book) I Am a Camera by John Van Druten (play)
Produced by	John Woolf
Starring	Julie Harris Laurence Harvey Shelley Winters Ron Randell Lea Seidl Anton Diffring
Cinematography	Guy Green
Edited by	Clive Donner
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Production company	Remus Films
Distributed by	Independent Film Distributors
Release date	21 July 1955 (1955-07-21)[1]
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£144,666 (UK)[2]

I Am a Camera is a 1955 British 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.^[3][4] 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.