Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

This is the end...

8.3 1979 2h 27m
Drama War

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Roles

Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Cast

Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford

Editor's note

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is a mesmerizing adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The film follows Captain Willard's treacherous journey upriver to assassinate the renegade Colonel Kurtz, who has established himself as a god among a local tribe. The journey is as much internal as it is external, with each encounter exposing the madness and despair of war.

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