Zappa 2020

Synopsis

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 Zappa Self (archive footage)
• Mike Keneally Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
• Pamela Des Barres Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
• Lonnie Lardner Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
• Patrice Zappa Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
• Rose Zappa Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
• Francis Zappa Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
• Edgard Varèse Self (archive footage)
• Don Van Vliet Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
• The Mothers of Invention Themselves (archive footage)

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