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Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
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- Francis Coppola
- $31 million
- Carmine Coppola, Francis Coppola
Aug 15, 1979 · A U.S. Army officer is sent to assassinate a renegade colonel in Cambodia during the height of the war. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic drama mystery war film.
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 war epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, and Robert Duvall. It follows a soldier's journey to assassinate a rogue colonel in the Vietnam War, and features surreal and hallucinatory scenes.
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- Francis Ford Coppola
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- Marlon Brando
Nov 28, 1999 · A classic film about the horror of war and the madness of a hero, based on Coppola's experience in Vietnam. Read Ebert's analysis of the film's themes, characters, ending and legacy, and how Coppola's casting of Brando influenced the film's reception.
Aug 7, 2019 · Finally, Apocalypse Now finds its triumph in restating the inhumanity of empire. Like many a colonial planter, Colonel Kurtz finds it intensely pleasurable, even ecstatic, to feel himself superior ...
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Find out who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the 1979 classic film Apocalypse Now, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. See the full list of actors, actresses, and crew members, including Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, and Vittorio Storaro.
