The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short interviews with the American writerpoet Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder and first published in 1987 in the USA. Today, the video documentary is considered a cult classic.
The documentary was assembled from about 64 hours of film footage, which occurred during the threeyear lead time for Schroeders motion picture Barfly, for which Bukowski wrote the autobiographical script.
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