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Zappa

Name: Zappa
Director: Alex Winter
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 2020-11-27
Cast: Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Pamela Des Barres, Lonnie Lardner, Patrice Zappa

MusicDocumentary

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.

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Cast

Frank ZappaMike KeneallyPamela Des BarresLonnie LardnerPatrice ZappaRose ZappaFrancis ZappaEdgard VarèseDon Van VlietThe Mothers of InventionJohnny Guitar WatsonPamela Zarubica

Director

Alex Winter

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