Bagdad Café

Culinary Cinema

"The charm of "Bagdad Cafe" is that every character and every moment"

Roger Ebert
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Percy Adlon
  • Germany, USA 1987
  • 95 minutes
  • English, German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

German tourist Jasmin Munchgstettner (Marianne Sägebrecht) argues with her husband after car trouble strands them along a dusty highway in the American Southwest. Fuming, she storms off and travels by foot to the nearest outpost of civilization - the Bagdad Café. Upon arriving, she butts heads with the owner (CCH Pounder), but they soon forge an unlikely friendship. What begins as a few days' respite becomes a prolonged stay as Jasmine finds her niche within this eccentric truck-stop community.

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  • Director Percy Adlon
  • Production Eleonore Adlon, Percy Adlon
  • Script Eleonore Adlon, Percy Adlon
  • Cinematography Bernd Heinl
  • Editing Norbert Herzner
  • Music Bob Telson
  • Festivals Cannes (Cannes Classics)
  • Actors Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance
  • Source Tamasa, Paris