CAN: The Documentary (1999): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1999, CAN: The Documentary is a musik and dokumentarfilm film directed by Rudi Dolezal, running about 87 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. CAN: The Documentary stars Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli and Malcolm Mooney, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.5/10, CAN: The Documentary has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch CAN: The Documentary page.

If you liked it. Fans of CAN: The Documentary tend to enjoy Whiplash, Coco - Lebendiger als das Leben!, Green Book - Eine besondere Freundschaft and Die Legende vom Ozeanpianisten.