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Bagdad Cafe is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Percy Adlon released in USA on 22 april 1988 with Marianne Sägebrecht
Bagdad Cafe (1987)
Out of Rosenheim
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Add to a movie listBagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon. It is a comedy set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert in the US state of California. It centers on two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship that ensues. It runs 95 minutes in the U.S. and 108 minutes in the German version.
Synopsis
German tourist Jasmin Münchgstettner (Sägebrecht) from Rosenheim and her husband fight whilst they are driving across the desert. She storms out of the car and makes her way to the isolated truck stop, which is run by the tough-as-nails and short-tempered Brenda (Pounder), whose own husband, after an argument out front, is soon to leave as well. Jasmin takes a room at the adjacent motel. Initially suspicious of the foreigner, Brenda eventually befriends Jasmin and allows her to work at the café.Actors
Marianne Sägebrecht
(Jasmin Münchgstettner)
CCH Pounder
(Brenda)
Jack Palance
(Rudi Cox)
Christine Kaufmann
(Debby)
Monica Calhoun
(Phyllis)
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