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Encyclopedia > Bagdad Cafe

Bagdad Café (a.k.a. Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 film directed by Percy Adlon. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Percy Adlon, German Filmaker Percy Adlon (born June 1, 1935 in Munich, Germany) is a German Film - Television Director, Author and Producer. ...


The film is a U.S./German co-production (running 95 minutes in the U.S. and 108 minutes in the German version. It is a somewhat surreal comedy set in a down-at-heel truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert. An ill-assorted cast of characters are assembled, including a comfortably built German tourist (Sägebrecht as Jasmin) who has left her husband after a row in the middle of the desert, the short-tempered owner of the café (Pounder as Brenda) who has just thrown her husband out, Brenda's two children and grandchild, a strange ex-Hollywood set-painter (Palance), and a glamorous tattoo artist (Kaufmann). Through a passion for cleaning and for magic tricks, Jasmin transforms the café and all the people in it. ... Surrealism is a philosophy, a cultural and artistic movement, and a term used to describe unexpected juxtapositions. ... A truck stop is an eating establishment, usually located near a busy road, with a large parking area for trucks and other heavy vehicles. ... The word motel originates from the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, first built in 1925 by Arthur Heinman. ... Mojave Desert The Mojave or Mohave Desert occupies a significant portion of Southern California and parts of Utah, Nevada and Arizona. ...

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Cast

  • Marianne Sägebrecht — Jasmin
  • C.C.H. Pounder — Brenda
  • Jack Palance — Rudi Cox
  • Christine Kaufmann — Debby
  • Monica Calhoun — Phyllis
  • Darron Flagg — Salomo
  • George Aguilar — Cahuenga
  • G. Smokey Campbell — Sal
  • Hans Stadlbauer — Muenchgstettner
  • Alan S. Craig — Eric
  • Apesanahkwat — Sheriff Arnie
  • Ronald Lee Jarvis — Trucker Ron
  • Mark Daneri — Trucker Mark
  • Ray Young — Trucker Ray
  • Gary Lee Davis — Trucker Gary

Jack Palance (born Vladimir Palahniuk) (born February 18, 1919) is an American actor. ...

Other credits

  • Written by Eleonore Adlon, Percy Adlon, & Christopher Doherty
  • Produced by Eleonore Adlon, Percy Adlon, & Dietrich von Watzdorf (executive producer)
  • Original music by Bob Telson
  • Cinematography by Bernd Heinl
  • Film editing by Norbert Herzner

Awards & nominations

  • 1988: won Bavarian Film Award Best Screenplay (Eleonore & Percy Adlon)
  • 1988: won Ernst Lubitsch Award (Percy Adlon)
  • 1989: nominated for the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song (Bob Telson for the song "Calling You")
  • 1989: won Amanda Best Foreign Feature Film (Percy Adlon)
  • 1989: won Artios Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy (Al Onorato & Jerold Franks)
  • 1989: won César Best Foreign Film (Percy Adlon)
Full list of awards

Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Television series

In 1990 the film was turned into a television series starring James Gammon, Whoopi Goldberg, Cleavon Little, and Jean Stapleton 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Gammon (born April 20, 1940 in Newman, Illinois) is an American actor. ... Sarafina movie poster featuring Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, either 1949 or 1955 (sources disagree), in New York City), is a well-known American movie actress, comedian, and singer. ... Cleavon Little (June 1, 1939 - October 22, 1992) was an American actor, best known for his lead role in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles. ... Categories: Stub | 1923 births | American actors ...


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But this is Bagdad in the Mojave desert in California, a tiny dot on the map, where temperatures reach 115 degrees F in the summer and where the marines and military helicopters are having a quiet day of training at the world’s largest marine base nearby.
While Bagdad itself, once a thriving railroad town, has all but disappeared and its residents long gone, the Bagdad Cafe, just down the road on Route 66 and the subject of the 1985 Percy Aldon film of the same name, is thriving.
Back at the Bagdad cafe, Crazy Bob, as he introduced himself, who claimed to be 105 and who has a “9/11 Never Forget” badge on his baseball cap, had his own opinion.
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