Overview
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Director and cast
- Frank Zappa as Self (archive footage)
- Theodore Bikel as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
- Arlene Francis as Self (archive footage)
- Keith Moon as Self (archive footage)
- Steve Allen as Self (archive footage)
- Jimmy Carl Black as Self (archive footage)
- Pierre Boulez as Self (archive footage)
- Thomas Braden as Self (archive footage)
- Napoleon Murphy Brock as Self (archive footage)
- Paul Carman Cast
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