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Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Drama War

This is the end...

Release Date: 1979, May 19
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Zoetrope
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Scott Glenn, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin, Martin Sheen, R. Lee Ermey, Aurore Clément, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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