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Release Date:
May 3, 2016
Original Title:
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Alternate Titles:
Zapped - Frank Zappa in seinen eigenen Worten
Zapped - Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa
Genres:
Documentary | Music
Production Companies:
ARTE
Les Films du Poisson
SWR
UFA Fiction
Production Countries:
France | Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
HU: 18 JP: R15+ NL: 18 PL: 18 RO: 15 US: R
Runtime: 93
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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Associate Producer:
Laetitia Gonzalez
Nico Hofmann
Yaël Fogiel
Joachim Kosack
Markus Brunnemann
Co-Producer:
Jochen Laube
Director:
Thorsten Schütte
Editor:
Willibald Wonneberger
Executive Producer:
Thorsten Schütte
Gail Zappa
Ahmet Zappa
Line Producer:
Michael Jungfleisch
Claire Babany
Producer:
Elizabeth Klinck
Estelle Fialon
Researcher:
Liz Etherington
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Marvin Keil
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