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.
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)