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Zappa (2020)
Directed by Alex Winter
“Save the Vault. Tell the Story.”
Music, Documentary · 2h 09m
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.
Cast
Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
M
Mike Keneally
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Pamela Des Barres
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
L
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
P
Patrice Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
R
Rose Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
F
Francis Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Edgard Varèse
Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
T
The Mothers of Invention
Themselves (archive footage)
J
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self (archive footage)
P
Pamela Zarubica
Self - Zappa's Roommate
Crew
- Director
- Alex Winter
- Director of Photography
- Anghel Decca
- Producer
- Alex Winter, Glen Zipper, Ahmet Zappa, John Frizzell, Devorah DeVries, Jade Allen
Details
- Release date
- 2020-11-27
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Genres
- Music, Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, United Kingdom
- Production
- Trouper Productions, Zipper Bros Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, BFI, Magnolia Pictures
- Budget
- $1,126,036