CAN: The Documentary
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The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.
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Holger Czukay
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Krieg der Töne
Jaki Liebezeit
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CAN: The Free Concert
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Can
Themselves
Rudi Dolezal
Sven Offen
Michael Karoli
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CAN: The Free Concert
Hannes Rossacher
Malcolm Mooney
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Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)
Kris Needs
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Shirley Karoli
Irmin Schmidt
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Rudi Dolezal Director · Hannes Rossacher Director Sven Offen Editor
United States release January 1, 1999 · Produced in Austria, United Kingdom · Languages English, German
Production
DoRo Productions
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Austria · United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
United Kingdom · January 1, 1999
United States · January 1, 1999
Theatrical
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