Bagdad Café is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon. It is a comedy-drama set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert in the US state of California. Loosely based on Carson McCullers' novella The Ballad of the Sad Café, 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.PlotGerman tourists Jasmin Münchgstettner and her husband fight while driving across the desert. She storms out of the car and makes her way to the isolated tru...