Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
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.
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| Original Language | en |
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Directed By
Thorsten Schütte
Crew
Thorsten Schütte
Marvin Keil
Liz Etherington
Elizabeth Klinck
Willibald Wonneberger
Gail Zappa
Ahmet Zappa
Thorsten Schütte
Jochen Laube
Joachim Kosack
Michael Jungfleisch
Nico Hofmann
Laetitia Gonzalez
Yaël Fogiel
Estelle Fialon
Markus Brunnemann
Claire Babany
TOP CAST
Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Theodore Bikel
Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
Arlene Francis
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl Black
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Braden
Self (archive footage)
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Self (archive footage)
Paul Carman
Self (archive footage)
Katie Couric
Self (archive footage)
Mike Douglas
Self (archive footage)
George Duke
Self (archive footage)
Václav Havel
Self (archive footage)
Angel
Self (archive footage)
Chuck Ash
Self - Pennsylvania State Police (archive footage)
Arthur Barrow
Self (archive footage)
Adrian Belew
Self (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
Self (archive footage)
Wally Bruner
Self (archive footage)
Del Casher
Self (archive footage)
Vinnie Colaiuta
Self (archive footage)
Connie Chung
Self (archive footage)
Robin Denselow
Self (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
Self (archive footage)
Ensemble Modern
Themselves (archive footage)
Roy Estrada
Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Tom Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Walt Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Jamie Gangel
Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Tipper Gore
Self (archive footage)
Judy Gridley
Chorus Leader (archive footage)
Robert Hager
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Paula Fickes Hawkins
Self - US Senator (Florida) (archive footage)
Ralph Humphrey
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Jacobs
Self (archive footage)
Howard Kaylan
Self (archive footage)
Mike Keneally
Self (archive footage)
Martin Lickert
Self (archive footage)
June Lockhart
Self (archive footage)
London Symphony Orchestra
Themselves (archive footage)
John Lofton
Self (archive footage)
Ed Mann
Self (archive footage)
Tommy Mars
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Martin
Self (archive footage)
Kurt McGettrick
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
The Hot Nun (archive footage)
Kent Nagano
Self (archive footage)
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