Apocalypse Now

United States of America, 1979

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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.

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Credits

director

Francis Ford Coppola

co-producer

Tom Sternberg

producer

Francis Ford Coppola

production company

American Zoetrope

United Artists

production design

Dean Tavoularis

writer

Francis Ford Coppola

John Milius

Michael Herr

Duration

02:27:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
1979

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-28

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

War

TMDB-Movie

28

Wikidata

Q182692

Collected

156 times

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