Bagdad Cafe is a movie directed by Percy Adlon in 1987 and inspired by the book The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, first published in 1951. The movie features Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg, and others.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1987
Minutes
95
Movie Rate
7.40
Source: IMDb
Movie
Bagdad Cafe
Director: Percy Adlon
Country: West Germany
Year: 1987
Length: 1h35m
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Year
1951
Pages
72
Book Rate
7.60
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Book
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers
Country: USA
First published in: 1951
Length: 72 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Simon Callow
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“The movie is better than the book”
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