Bagdad Cafe (sometimes Bagdad Caf, 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.[1] Inspired by Carson McCullers' novella The Ballad of the Sad Caf (1951),[2] the film 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. 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 Mnchgstettner from Rosenheim and her husband fight while driving across the American southwest desert. She storms out of the car and makes her way to an isolated truck stop cafe, which is run by the tough-as-nails and short-tempered Brenda, whose own husband, after an argument out front, has also left. Jasmin takes a room at the adjacent motel. Initially suspicious of the foreigner, Brenda eventually befriends Jasmin and allows her to work at the cafe.
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The cafe is visited by an assortment of colorful characters, including a strange ex-Hollywood set-painter and a glamorous tattoo artist. Brenda's son plays J. S. Bach preludes on the piano. With an ability to quietly empathize with everyone she meets at the cafe, and helped by a passion for cleaning and performing magic tricks, Jasmin gradually transforms the cafe and all the people in it.
The script was inspired by a road trip across U.S. Route 66 taken by director Percy Adlon and his wife Eleanor, a producer, in 1984.[3] The town of Barstow, California reminded the couple of "purgatory."[4] The German title is a joke based on Jasmin's lack of English: while she means to say that she is from Rosenheim, she actually says that she is "out of Rosenheim," with the title also making reference to Sidney Pollack's then recently released popular 1985 film Out of Africa. The film was shot in sequence.[3]
"[Percy Adlon] is saying something in this movie about Europe and America, about the old and the new, about the edge of the desert as the edge of the American Dream. I am not sure exactly what it is, but that is comforting; if a director could assemble these strange characters and then know for sure what they were doing in the same movie together, he would be too confident to find the humor in their situation. The charm of "Bagdad Cafe" is that every character and every moment is unanticipated, obscurely motivated, of uncertain meaning and vibrating with life".[7]
In 1990 the film was re-created as a television series starring James Gammon, Whoopi Goldberg, Cleavon Little, and Jean Stapleton, with Stapleton as the abandoned tourist, and Goldberg as the restaurant operator. In the TV version the tourist was no longer from Germany. The series was shot in the conventional multi-camera sitcom format, before a studio audience.[16] The show did not attract a sizable audience and it was cancelled after two seasons.[17]
The setting, Bagdad, California, is a former town on U.S. Route 66. After being bypassed by Interstate 40 in 1973, it was abandoned and eventually razed.[18] While the town had a "Bagdad Cafe", the film was shot at the then Sidewinder Cafe in Newberry Springs, 50 miles (80 km) west of the site of Bagdad. The cafe has become something of a tourist destination; to capitalize on the film, it changed its name to Bagdad Cafe.[19] A small noticeboard on the cafe wall features snapshots of the film's cast and crew.
The soundtrack features the songs "Calling You", written by Bob Telson and sung by Jevetta Steele, and "Brenda, Brenda" with lyrics by Lee Breuer and music by Bob Telson, sung by Jearlyn Steele, featuring the harmonica of William Galison, and also has a track in which the director narrates the story, including the film's missing scenes.[20]
The movie starred CCH Pounder (also seen on ER and NCIS New Orleans, among other shows) and Jack Palance (dozens of films including City Slickers). It centered around the cafe owner (Pounder) and a German woman, stranded in the desert, who formed an unlikely friendship and brought new life to the struggling truck stop.
The story is a simple one: in the tiny desert ghost town of Bagdad, California, along the historic Route 66, lies Bagdad Cafe, a trucker pit-stop and sometimes-purveyor of subpar coffee. Brenda (Sandra Marvin), the frazzled and abrasive cafe owner whose husband has recently left her, has her life interrupted by a lost and also recently husbandless German tourist, Jasmin (Patrycja Kujawska). What follows is a thawing of icy hearts and the forming of an unlikely and heart-warming friendship.
When you're entertaining friends from out of the area, and you're in the vicinity of Newberry Springs, isn't a visit to the "World Famous" Bagdad Cafe a "must-do" stop on your travel itinerary? If you've ever seen the funky movie, Bagdad Cafe, and if you're visiting Newberry Springs, a visit to the Bagdad Cafe is a must. A visit to this fine restaurant is also in order if you're in the mood for a great meal, and you're a history buff, especially if you're a fan of historic Route 66...
Photo: It's 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, September 04, 2017. I've pulled into the empty parking lot of Bagdad Cafe, which is a rarity, as this restaurant is one of the most famous landmarks along historic Route 66, at least in California. I thought the restaurant was closed until I saw the friendly neon "OPEN" sign in the window, welcoming me to come in and enjoy breakfast.
Photo: As you enter the restaurant, you'll notice the counter, the order window, the tee-shirts for sale, and the unbelievable decor. Since my last visit to this unique restaurant, over 10 years ago, I noticed the decor had moved way over the "funky" line compared to my previous visit. No worries, as it gives the place more character.
Photo: Bagdad Cafe is a registered landmark along Route 66, and the restaurant is proud to display it's heritage on menus, posters, and practically everywhere. I definitely love the worn, mismatched stools at the counter.
There was only one local diner present, who looked to be a very over-the-hill desert rat, who finished his cup of coffee, and departed shortly after I arrived. Today was very unusual for this restaurant, but the solitude was quite welcome to me, as this fine diner is frequently mobbed by tour buses full of affluent tourists visiting the high desert from overseas. During the remainder of my visit, I had the dining room all to myself.
Photo: A portion of the breakfast menu. This fine restaurant is serious about breakfast, as breakfast is served whenever the restaurant is open. For some crazy reason I wasn't really hungry on this late Tuesday morning, so I decided to go mostly meatless, but I couldn't resist ordering a bowl of gravy to dip my hash brown potatoes into.
Photo: Another view of the counter, the funky decor, and the mis-matched stools and "table for two" at the counter. The window to the kitchen is a little hard to see, at the center of the photo, due to amount of "decorations" in the room.
Photo: After placing my order, I wandered around the restaurant, taking photos, and discovered this upright piano in the back dining room. I decided to amuse myself, so I sat down at the piano to belt out Beethoven's "Fur Elise" in A Minor, to make an impression and to bring a little culture to Newberry Springs. After playing the opening rift, and a few bars of this beautiful song, I gave up, as the piano was hopelessly out of tune.
Photo: Gina, the only employee on duty, works the counter. I asked her what happens when she's by herself and a bus load of visitors arrives. She told me she "gets busy." To me, that would be an understatement!
Photo; I sat next to the open windows and looked out into the parking lot. During the hour or so I spent at the restaurant, a few cars pulled into the lot, somebody jumped out and snapped a few photos, and then drove away. Why didn't the come in to enjoy a burger or a great breakfast? I wish that I'd had the presence of mind to take a photo or two of the folks taking photos...
Photo: Gina brings my breakfast to my table. My breakfast arrived about 20 minutes after ordering it, which is not bad for a gal who is running the whole restaurant by herself. As I previously mentioned, lucky for me, I avoided tour bus visitors on this late Tuesday morning.
Photo: I usually heavy appetite deserted me today, so I went "meatless..." almost, and simply ordered two eggs over easy, hash browns and toast. I could not resist ordering a bowl of sausage gravy, as it is simply heavenly to dip my potatoes and toast into the gravy.
My breakfast was perfectly cooked, delicious, and the portion was very large. The total cost of my breakfast, including the bowl of gravy - only $.60 - and tax came to an unbelievable $6.59, which is about the same that you'd spend at a "fast food" restaurant and you'd suffer with a bland, corporate meal, that is the same from coast to coast.
Our friends Jerry and Edna were on their way home to Texas, after a three-week visit to northern California to visit friends and family. Jerry is a "roadie" at heart and a great fan of Route 66, and had seen the quirky movie Bagdad Cafe, and when I suggested to him that we might want to visit the place, and enjoy a lunch at the restaurant, he jumped at the chance. Since we were spending a "mini-vacation" with them in Laughlin, Nevada, as they were traveling home to Texas, lunch at Bagdad Cafe seemed the right thing to do.
I won't go into many details about Bagdad Cafe, as they have been covered in my previous article from 2005 about a wonderful lunch that my bother Paul and I enjoyed at the cafe, back in 2005. Neither Jerry nor Edna had ever been in the place prior to our visit, so when they entered the restaurant, they immediately commented that it looked like a 1950's roadhouse. 152ee80cbc
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