Bagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon, starring Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palanc. It is a comedy set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert in California. It centers on two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship that ensues.

The film was shot at what was then the Sidewinder Cafe in Newberry Springs, California, 50 miles west of the original site of Bagdad on old U.S. 66. Since then, the café has become something of a tourist destination and to capitalize on the movie it changed its name to the Bagdad Café. Bagdad, California is the original setting.

An actual Bagdad Cafe existed in the 1960s when Route 66 ran through the town of Bagdad. When Interstate 40 opened and bypassed the two-lane Route 66, the town's economy collapsed and the businesses closed; the town was completely razed.

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February 3, 2018

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