CAN: The Documentary 25 years old

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.

Credits

CAN: The Documentary Cast

Name Character
Irmin Schmidt He was 61, now 87 years old

CAN: The Documentary Crew

Name Department
Rudi Dolezal as Director. He was 40 (now 66) years old Directing
Hannes Rossacher as Director. He was 46 (now 72) years old Directing
Sven Offen as Editor. He was 1 (now 24) years old Editing
CAN: The Documentary poster
CAN: The Documentary (25 years)

  • Release day: Friday, January 01, 1999
  • Runtime: 87 minutes