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Apocalypse Now

This is the end...

Release: 1979 Runtime: 2h 27min Rating: R Language: English

Drama War

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.

Status: Released
Original language: EN
Production countries: United States of America
Production: American Zoetrope

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Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Main crew

Vittorio Storaro — Director of Photography
Gerald B. Greenberg — Editor
Walter Murch — Editor
Lisa Fruchtman — Editor
Francis Ford Coppola — Original Music Composer
Carmine Coppola — Original Music Composer
Francis Ford Coppola — Producer
John Milius — Writer

Cast

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

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Themes and genres

Drama War guerrilla warfare vietnam war journalist mission vietnam vietcong central intelligence agency (cia) cambodia army drug abuse based on novel or book secret mission insanity surrealism tribe green beret jungle descent into madness brutality riverboat military macabre anti war absurd awestruck distressing