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Original Release
January 1, 1999
1h 27m
CAN: The Documentary (1999)
β 6.587 min
Overview
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.
Director

Hannes Rossacher
Department: Directing
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Cast
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Holger Czukay
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Jaki Liebezeit
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Michael Karoli
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Malcolm Mooney
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Kris Needs
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Shirley Karoli
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Irmin Schmidt
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Genres
DocumentaryMusic
Production Companies
DoRo Productions