Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

93 mins | Documentary, Music | May 3, 2016

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.

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

93 mins | Documentary, Music | May 3, 2016

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Südwestrundfunk, ARTE, Les Films du Poisson, UFA Fiction
Original title Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Directors Thorsten Schütte
Writers

Cast

Frank Zappa

as Himself

Theodore Bikel

as Himself

Arlene Francis

as Herself

Keith Moon

as Himself

Steve Allen

as Himself

Jimmy Carl Black

as Himself

Pierre Boulez

as Himself

Thomas Braden

as Himself

Paul Carman

as Himself

Katie Couric

as Herself

Mike Douglas

as Himself

George Duke

as Himself

Václav Havel

as Himself