Apocalypse Now
"This is the end..."
1979-05-19
8.271
en 147mDramaWar
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.
Makeup Artist
Fred C. Blau Jr.
Producer
Francis Ford Coppola
Editor
Walter Murch
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Production Design
Dean Tavoularis
Casting
Vic Ramos
guerrilla warfare epic 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 commanding distressing
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$150,000,000Budget
$31,500,000Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- American Zoetrope
