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My last film projection

Bagdad Cafe (1987)

Awards and nominations

1988: won Bavarian Film Award Best Screenplay (Eleonore & Percy Adlon)
1988: won Ernst Lubitsch Award (Percy Adlon)
1989: nominated for the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song (Bob Telson for the song "Calling You")
1989: won Amanda Best Foreign Feature Film (Percy Adlon)
1989: won Artios Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy (Al Onorato and Jerold Franks)
1989: won César Best Foreign Film (Percy Adlon)

In 1990, the film was turned into a television series starring James Gammon, Whoopi Goldberg, Cleavon Little, and Jean Stapleton, with Stapleton as Jasmin and Goldberg as Brenda. In the TV version, Jasmin was no longer German. The series was shot in the conventional sitcom format, before a studio audience. The show did not obtain a sizable audience, being forced to compete with ABC's Top 30 hit Family Matters and was cancelled after one season.
Bagdad, California is the original setting (Bagdad, Arizona is an unrelated town). There was an actual Bagdad Cafe that existed in the 1960s when U.S. Route 66 ran through the town; the town has since vanished but the cafe itself is still open for business. The site is marked by a railroad siding and a single tree. 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 has changed its name to the Bagdad Café. A small notice board on the café wall features snapshots of the film's cast and crew.
The soundtrack has the song "Calling You," by Jevetta Steele, and has a track in which the director narrates the story, including the film's missing scenes.The two principal piano pieces performed by Darron Flagg are the "C Major Prelude No. 1" and "D Major Prelude No. 5" from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.