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Bagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 film directed by Percy Adlon.

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.

Cast

Marianne Sägebrecht — Jasmin
CCH 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

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)

Television series

In 1990 the film was turned into a television series starring James Gammon, Whoopi Goldberg, Cleavon Little, and Jean Stapleton

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