ZAPPA

ZAPPA, 2020
USA | HDD, Color, 129’ | English
Director: Alex Winter

This documentary about Frank Zappa, one of the most eccentric figures in American rock music history, begins with footage from his 1991 concert in Prague. Zappa was invited to Prague as one of the cultural figures who inspired the Velvet Revolution. Two years after this concert, he would succumb to cancer and die at the age of 52. The film portrays Zappa's journey from childhood to business ethics, and from rock stardom to composing symphonies using rare archival footage. He is a man serious enough to hate hippies during the 1960s, contrarian enough to be anti-drugs despite making psychedelic music, and brave enough to sue big corporations for copyright infringements.