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Frank Zappa - Eat That Question

Deutschland Frankreich Schweden 2015 Dokumentarfilm

The film celebrates the 20th anniversary of the death of composer, musician, social critic, filmmaker, bandleader, entertainer, guitarist and the ‘total work of art’, Frank Zappa. Using unseen, lost and forgotten film and audio recordings from all over the world, the film reconstructs the phenomenon Frank Zappa in his own words and shows the drawing power and the effect the artist and his work had on an entire generation and beyond.

Source: 50. Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2016

 

Credits

Director

  • Thorsten Schütte

Screenplay

  • Thorsten Schütte (Konzept)

Editing

  • Willibald Wonneberger

Music

  • Marc Fragstein
  • Armelle Mahé

Production company

  • UFA Fiction GmbH (Potsdam)
  • Les Films du Poisson (Paris)

Producer

  • Estelle Fialon

Alle Credits

Director

  • Thorsten Schütte

Screenplay

  • Thorsten Schütte (Konzept)

Colour grading

  • Eric Salleron

Editing

  • Willibald Wonneberger

Audio mixing

  • Marc Fragstein
  • Armelle Mahé

Music

  • Marc Fragstein
  • Armelle Mahé

Participation

  • Frank Zappa
    Archivmaterial

Production company

  • UFA Fiction GmbH (Potsdam)
  • Les Films du Poisson (Paris)

in co-production with

  • Südwestrundfunk (SWR) (Baden-Baden)
  • Arte France (Issy-les-Moulineaux)

Producer

  • Estelle Fialon

Co-Producer

  • Jochen Laube

Executive producer

  • Thorsten Schütte
  • Gail Zappa
  • Ahmet Zappa

Line producer

  • Michael Jungfleisch
  • Michael Jungfleisch
  • Claire Babany

Unit production manager

  • Yaël Fogiel
  • Laëtitia Gonzalez
  • Nico Hofmann
  • Joachim Kosack
  • Markus Brunnemann

Original distributor

  • Arsenal Filmverleih GmbH (Tübingen)

Funding

  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • Sveriges Television (SVT) (Stockholm)
  • Procirep (Paris)
  • Centre National de la Cinématographie (C.N.C.) (Paris)
Duration:
89 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.11.2016, 163927, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 25.01.2016, Park City, Utah, Sundance Film Festival;
Kinostart (DE): 08.12.2016

Titles

Additional titles
  • Weiterer Titel Zapped
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words
  • Originaltitel (DE) Frank Zappa - Eat That Question

Versions

Original

Duration:
89 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.11.2016, 163927, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 25.01.2016, Park City, Utah, Sundance Film Festival;
Kinostart (DE): 08.12.2016

Awards

Filmfestival San Sebastian 2016
  • Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
Asbury Park Music in Film-Festival 2016
  • Foundation Award
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/frank-zappa-eat-that-question_