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Where's the Beer and when do we get paid?

Deutschland 2012 Dokumentarfilm

How did Jimmy Carl Black, legendary drummer of Frank Zappa's "Mothers of Invention", end up in a small village in Bavaria? At the age of 70, "The Indian of the Group", who hardly speaks any German, lives in Höpfling and still goes on tours all over Europe to support himself. When he performs as drummer and singer, people always want him to sign the same old Zappa records, something he has done for forty years now. "To tell the truth, I don't like to play the drums that much anymore. It's too hard a work,man. But I need the money." The filmmakers accompanied Jimmy Carl Black, who played down his diagnosed cancer with humour, for the last two years of his life, visiting him in Höpfling and documenting his live performances. Nobody wanted to realize that the big US tour, which took him also to his hometown El Paso, would eventually be his last.

 

Credits

Director

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Screenplay

  • Sigrun Köhler (Konzept)
  • Wiltrud Baier (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Editing

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Production company

  • Böller und Brot (Stuttgart)

Producer

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Alle Credits

Director

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Screenplay

  • Sigrun Köhler (Konzept)
  • Wiltrud Baier (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Colour grading

  • Stefan Engelkamp

Editing

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Sound

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Audio mixing

  • Ansgar Frerich

Participation

  • Jimmy Carl Black
  • Don Preston
  • Roy Estrada
  • Arthur Brown
  • Eugene Chadbourne
  • Bunk Gardener

Production company

  • Böller und Brot (Stuttgart)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) / 3sat (Mainz)

in association with

  • Indi Film GmbH (Stuttgart/Berlin)

Producer

  • Sigrun Köhler
  • Wiltrud Baier

Producer (TV)

  • Bettina Kasten

Post-production

  • Martin A. Kuhnert
  • Selina Titz

Original distributor

  • Böller und Brot (Stuttgart)

Funding

  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
Duration:
86 min
Format:
DCP, 1,1:85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 28.06.2013, 139694, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.10.2012, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 29.08.2013

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Where's the Beer and when do we get paid?

Versions

Original

Duration:
86 min
Format:
DCP, 1,1:85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 28.06.2013, 139694, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 22.10.2012, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 29.08.2013

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/wheres-the-beer-and-when-do-we-get-paid_