Out of Rosenheim

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Movie
Original title Baghdad Cafe
Country of production Germany
United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Percy Adlon
script Eleonore Adlon
Percy Adlon
Christopher Doherty
production Eleonore Adlon
Percy Adlon
Dietrich von Watzdorf
music Bob Telson
camera Bernd Heinl
cut Norbert Herzner
occupation

Out of Rosenheim is a movie by the German director Percy Adlon from 1987.

Baghdad Cafe in Newberry Springs, California

action

Jasmin Münchgstettner from Rosenheim separates from her husband during a drive through California after a solid argument and stands alone in the desert. On foot in her loden suit , with a handbag and suitcase, she finally arrives at a small settlement called Baghdad, which consists only of the run-down Baghdad café with an attached motel and gas station. The house is run by the resolute, ill-tempered Brenda, who recently threw her useless husband out after an argument. Brenda lives in the café with her teenage daughter Phyllis, her adult son Solomon (who, to Brenda's chagrin, is constantly practicing preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier ) and his little boy. The tattoo artist Debby and the aging stage painter Rudy Cox also live there as permanent guests .

Jasmin takes a room, although Brenda meets the woman, who is completely strange in her eyes, with open dislike. While unpacking, Jasmin notices that there are her husband's things in the suitcase instead of her own. When Brenda finds the male travel articles scattered around the room the next morning, including shaving brushes and lederhosen, she sees her reservations about Jasmin confirmed and her aversion turns into hostility. But the summoned sheriff sees no reason to take action against Jasmin's stay, as it does not violate any law. Brenda argues with Jasmin's otherness. This creates a situation that seems absurd, as an African American woman and an indigenous woman with long black braids talk about the difference of a European woman, just as whites usually judge the difference of blacks or Indians.

When Jasmine makes herself useful in the cafe by tidying up, cleaning and looking after Brenda's family, Brenda almost throws her out for this interference in her private life. On the other hand, she notices Jasmin's ability to encourage people, convey appreciation, and spread joy, and realizes that Jasmin's only concern is to feel valuable and useful again after her husband's humiliations. A friendship slowly grows between the two dissimilar women.

Jasmin has found a box with material and instructions for magic tricks in her husband's luggage, begins to practice and perform tricks for individual guests. A magic show grows out of this, and word quickly gets around among truckers. The café is always full now. Rudy Cox has long since fallen in love with Jasmin and paints several pictures of her in increasingly revealing poses.

When Jasmin's tourist visa expired, she had to leave, especially since she was not allowed to work in the USA without a green card . Without them, life in Baghdad is as dreary as before. However, she comes back, the magic show is perfected, Brenda makes up with her husband, and Cox proposes marriage to Jasmine so she can stay permanently.

Trivia

  • The film was shot in the conveniently located desert town of Newberry Springs on Interstate 40 near Barstow , not in Baghdad , which is also in California, but further east on the legendary Route 66 in the Mojave Desert between Ludlow and Amboy , about ten kilometers south Interstate 40. The AAA does not show Baghdad in California, but a desert town in Arizona called Baghdad .
  • At the time of filming, the Baghdad Café was still called Sidewinder and was a converted animal feed depot. It was later renamed to the name it bears in the film. Google Street View shows it in the form known from the film, but without a gas station.
  • The film title used in Germany satirizes Jasmin's awkward English - out of Rosenheim literally means “out of Rosenheim, outside of Rosenheim”. From Rosenheim would be correct .
  • Jevetta Steele sings the theme song Calling You , a nomination for the Bob Telson 1989 Oscar in the category Best Song received. From Calling You a cover version of exists Jeff Buckley on the live album Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) .

series

Based on the film, the TV series Bagdad Café with Whoopi Goldberg was shot in the USA in 1990 , and it was also broadcast in Germany.

musical

In 2005, Percy Adlon adapted the story for the stage. Initially under the international name “Bagdad Café”, the musical was renamed “Out of Rosenheim” due to its lack of success.

Reviews

“Fairytale-like comedy about a self-liberation from the narrow-mindedness of everyday life and the human qualities in everyone; funny and staged and played with great attention to detail. "

- Lexicon of International Films

"A real story of emancipation and a homage to women, also outside of Baghdad, USA (and a glimmer of hope for the German comedy film)."

- Reinhold Jacobi : film-dienst, No. 23, November 17, 1987

Awards and nominations (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Out of Rosenheim . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 58 692-a K).
  2. ↑ Google Street View , accessed April 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Mr. Adlon makes his film sing, Berliner Zeitung
  4. ^ Out of Rosenheim in the Lexicon of International Films
  5. ^ Reinhold Jacobi: Out of Rosenheim. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved March 19, 2019 .