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Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola |
Written by | Joseph Conrad (novel) John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay) Michael Herr (narration) |
Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola |
Starring | Marlon Brando Robert Duvall Martin Sheen Laurence Fishburne Dennis Hopper Harrison Ford |
Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
Edited by | Lisa Fruchtman Gerald B. Greenberg Walter Murch |
Music by | Carmine Coppola & Francis Ford Coppola |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | May 10, 1979 |
Running time | 153 min. 202 min. (redux) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $31,500,000 |
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic drama movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It tells a fictional (made-up) story in which takes place in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. It tells the story of an Army Captain who is sent on a boat deep into the Cambodian jungle to capture a Special Forces colonel who has gone insane. It was partly based on Joseph Conrad's novel about colonialism, Heart of Darkness.