Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
Edition 1991
147'
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1979
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Mystery, War, Drama
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Dialogue:
Vietnamese, French, English
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Composer:
Francis Ford Coppola, Carmine Coppola
With:
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
When Coppola bought the script of Apocalypse Now, based on sîtuations and characters from Heart of Darkness, in 1970, he set himself a goal : 'to make a broad, spectacular film of epic action-adventure scale that however, is also rich in theme and a phi!osophical inquiry into the mythology of war and the human condition.' Within these formidable objectives, Coppola's production, neither politically-based nor documentary in design, has achieved a brooding and ominous journey into darkness. Today it still remains the most impressive film about Vietnam, a frightening journey into the mystique of war.
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Credits
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Composer
Francis Ford Coppola, Carmine Coppola
With
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Scenario
Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola
Director of Photography
Vittorio Storaro
Editor
Richard Marks, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg
Producer
Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos / American Zoetrope, Tom Sternberg, Gray Frederickson
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Dialogue
Vietnamese, French, English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"Heart of Darkness" (Joseph Conrad)
Year
1979
