Harold Nebenzal, born in Berlin in 1922, is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed film Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli. After serving in the Marine Corps during WWll as a Japanese interpreter, he apprenticed in film production at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio and has since worked as producer, associate producer, production supervisor, and screenwriter with such legendary actors as William Holden, Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, and Sophia Loren. Nebenzal has also authored a number of novels including the highly acclaimed Café Berlin.

In the years between Germany's defeat in World War I and the reign ofthe Nazis, the underground clubs and cabarets of Berlin pulsed with thefrenetic energy of rebellion. Suspended on the precipice of globalcatastrophe, a young counterculture emerged in the Weimar capitalwhere-if only for a moment-races and religions mixed, jazz musicresounded, and liquor flowed in abundance.
In Harold Nebenzal's daringsuspenseful novel Café Berlin, this high-flying scene forms the backdropfor a thrilling tale of love and the universal human yearning to befree, even under the yoke of totalitarianism. Daniel Saporta is a youngJewish immigrant from Damascus, who comes to Berlin in search of famefortune, or at least a good party. He begins a tumultuous love affairwith Samira, an exotic dancer secretly under the employ of BritishIntelligence. When Samira uncovers a conspiracy involving Adolf Hitlerand the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Daniel is drawn inexorably into anunderground world of espionage, sex, and dire political stakes.Presented as a series of diary entries written years later, while Danielis in hiding during the war, Café Berlin recounts his fleeting memoryof the club and the German society now laid waste by the war.
Firstpublished by Overlook to great acclaim in 1991, Café Berlin is availableonce again, offering an incredible story of decadence and defianceduring Nazi Germany's rise to power.