CAN: The Documentary
1999, English. Directed by Hannes Rossacher & Rudi Dolezal.
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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- 1h 27m
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- English
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- 1 January 1999
- Country
- Austria, United Kingdom
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CAN: The Documentary runs 87 minutes (1h 27m).
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CAN: The Documentary isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1999. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed CAN: The Documentary?
CAN: The Documentary (1999) was directed by Hannes Rossacher and Rudi Dolezal and stars Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli.