Apocalypse Now
1979 · TMDB 8.3
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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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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 ene...
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- Runtime
- 147 min
- Released
- 1979-05-19
- Studio
- American Zoetrope
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- Khmer
- TMDB score
- 8.3
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Key contributors
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Francis Ford Coppola
Director
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John Milius
Writer
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Martin Sheen
Captain Benjamin Willard
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Marlon Brando
Colonel Walter Kurtz
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Frederic Forrest
Jay 'Chef' Hicks
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Albert Hall
Chief Phillips
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Laurence Fishburne
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
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Sam Bottoms
Lance B. Johnson
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Robert Duvall
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
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G.D. Spradlin
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