Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

2014 · 81 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · DIR. Salvo Cuccia

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Overview

In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public disturbances and police intervention. Cuccia had a ticket to the concert but never made it. Thirty years later, collaborating with Zappa's family, he re-creates the events through a combination of rare concert and backstage footage; photographs; anecdotes from family, band members, and concertgoers; and insights from Zappa biographer and friend Massimo Bassoli. The story is also a personal one, as Cuccia interweaves the story of Zappa's trip to Sicily with his own memories from that summer.

Dialogue Timeline — 829 lines

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00:00:40 One ordinary day, Frank Zappa's wife and kids
00:03:56 almost 1,000 miles from home,
00:07:59 That's the way the friendship between me and Frank started.
00:10:36 So many times it was just putting food trays on the dumbbell,
00:13:42 He was gone so very much so I was really missing having a dad around.
00:16:44 and there was no car for Frank.
00:20:38 So there was a really strange atmosphere,
00:22:57 INTERVIEW WITH THE FAMOUS MUSICIAN
00:26:10 So we're going... We're doing the same trip that we did with Frank.
00:28:37 of one of the worst Mafia battles.
00:32:01 That's not the kind of question that Frank Zappa would every ask himself.
00:34:24 "I would like to know how in the beginning of the century, my father
00:36:57 and maybe not being able to use the skill you already know,
00:39:56 They're all having a good time.
00:42:50 so that was my first big time rock 'n' roll event period.
00:46:18 We were very high. The stage was very high off the ground.
00:50:19 everyone sitting, and your hero so far away.
00:53:36 We don't know exactly what's happening,
00:57:40 went on outside for quite a while.
01:00:55 Somebody just paid a lot of money to come to learn how to speak Italian.
01:03:37 But after the Italian tour
01:07:52 that are in many ways characteristic of the family
01:10:33 in which the American Zappas meet the Sicilian Zappas.
01:15:38 And I saw Frank do that with his life as well.

Cast & Characters

Massimo Bassoli Himself
Mathilda Doucette Zappa Herself
Dweezil Zappa Himself
Joe Travers Himself
Gail Zappa Herself
Moon Unit Zappa Herself
Diva Zappa Herself
Steve Vai Himself
Tanino Liberatore Himself
Frank Zappa Himself (archive Footage)
Thomas Nordegg Himself
Scott Thunes Himself (archive footage)
Megan Zappa Herself

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed829
Dialogue density10.2 lines / min
First line00:00:40
Final line01:15:38

Production Record

DirectorSalvo Cuccia
LanguageEnglish

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