I saw it at a preview showing at the Goethe Institute in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago. The director, Stefan Plank (Conny's son) was there and did a Q&A afterwards.
The film itself is really good - great footage and interviews and it really gives an insight into someone who was clearly a genius. The film covered his whole career, and so only a portion of it was dedicated to what might be regarded as the "classic" Krautrock period. There was as much coverage of later years working with the Eurythmics, Ultravox, etc. Also, I had no idea that he recorded with rappers Whodini.
The Q&A with Stafan Plank was really interesting. Some great stories about how Conny turned down working with U2 on the Joshua Tree, and shopping for breakfast cerial in their local village with David Bowie. He also mentioned that they now have a UK distributor and so it wil be appearing at art house cinemas around the country (for example, it's going to be on at the Filmhouse in Edinbugh later in the year as part of their German Film Festival).
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