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Bagdad Cafe
Bagdad Cafe (sometimes Bagdad Café, titled Out of Rosenheim in Germany) is a 1987 English-language West German film directed by Percy Adlon. It is a comedy-drama set in a remote truck stop and motel in the Mojave Desert in the U.S. state of California.
Inspired by Carson McCullers' novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), the film centers on two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship that ensues.
It runs 108 minutes in the German version and a shorter 95 minutes in the U.S. version. The song "Calling You", sung by Jevetta Steele and written by Bob Telson, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 61st Academy Awards.
German tourists Jasmin Münchgstettner from Rosenheim and her husband fight while driving through the Mojave Desert. She storms out of the car, taking a suitcase, and walks down the road, while he drives off in the opposite direction. When he comes back through, Jasmin quickly hides so he cannot find her.
He barrels into the Bagdad Cafe, an isolated truck stop cafe, to look for Jasmin. Discovering they cannot sell beer, he asks for a coffee and finds out their coffee machine is on the fritz. The co-owner Sal offers coffee from a large yellow thermos he had just found on the roadside, which actually belongs to the Münchgstettners.
After he leaves, the tough-as-nails and short-tempered Brenda, finding out her husband Sal forgot both to bring the new coffee machine and a rifle the local Rudi Cox needed, chews him out. Arguing outside the café, she lists the many ways in which he does not do his part. Sal threatens to leave if she does not let up, so Brenda sends him packing.
Brenda, saddened by the argument, is sitting slumped in front of the café with a tear-stained face when Jasmin comes up, seeking a motel room. She also runs the adjacent motel, so checks her in. Initially suspicious of the foreigner, Brenda looks through her things and finds only mens clothes--most likely the German couple had inadvertently switched suitcases. Deciding Jasmin is a threat, she gets the sheriff to check her out. However, he finds no need for concern.
The cafe is regularly visited by an assortment of colorful characters, including strange ex-Hollywood set-painter Rudy Cox and glamorous tattoo artist Debby. Brenda's son Salomon plays J. S. Bach preludes on the piano all day, and her teenaged daughter Phyllis is constantly coming and going with different guys.
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Bagdad Cafe
Bagdad Cafe (sometimes Bagdad Café, titled Out of Rosenheim in Germany) is a 1987 English-language West German film directed by Percy Adlon. It is a comedy-drama set in a remote truck stop and motel in the Mojave Desert in the U.S. state of California.
Inspired by Carson McCullers' novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), the film centers on two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship that ensues.
It runs 108 minutes in the German version and a shorter 95 minutes in the U.S. version. The song "Calling You", sung by Jevetta Steele and written by Bob Telson, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 61st Academy Awards.
German tourists Jasmin Münchgstettner from Rosenheim and her husband fight while driving through the Mojave Desert. She storms out of the car, taking a suitcase, and walks down the road, while he drives off in the opposite direction. When he comes back through, Jasmin quickly hides so he cannot find her.
He barrels into the Bagdad Cafe, an isolated truck stop cafe, to look for Jasmin. Discovering they cannot sell beer, he asks for a coffee and finds out their coffee machine is on the fritz. The co-owner Sal offers coffee from a large yellow thermos he had just found on the roadside, which actually belongs to the Münchgstettners.
After he leaves, the tough-as-nails and short-tempered Brenda, finding out her husband Sal forgot both to bring the new coffee machine and a rifle the local Rudi Cox needed, chews him out. Arguing outside the café, she lists the many ways in which he does not do his part. Sal threatens to leave if she does not let up, so Brenda sends him packing.
Brenda, saddened by the argument, is sitting slumped in front of the café with a tear-stained face when Jasmin comes up, seeking a motel room. She also runs the adjacent motel, so checks her in. Initially suspicious of the foreigner, Brenda looks through her things and finds only mens clothes--most likely the German couple had inadvertently switched suitcases. Deciding Jasmin is a threat, she gets the sheriff to check her out. However, he finds no need for concern.
The cafe is regularly visited by an assortment of colorful characters, including strange ex-Hollywood set-painter Rudy Cox and glamorous tattoo artist Debby. Brenda's son Salomon plays J. S. Bach preludes on the piano all day, and her teenaged daughter Phyllis is constantly coming and going with different guys.