Zappa (2020)

11/27/2020 (US) • 2h 9m

Music, Documentary

Save the Vault. Tell the Story.

Overview

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

Top Billed Cast

Frank Zappa

Self (archive footage)

Mike Keneally

Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

Pamela Des Barres

Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Lonnie Lardner

Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)

Patrice Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)

Rose Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)

Francis Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)

Edgard Varèse

Self (archive footage)

Don Van Vliet

Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,126,036.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

composer

biography

avant-garde

progressive rock

rock singer

bandleader

life and career

the mother of invention

famous song

revolutionary singer

american musician

biographical documentary

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