Country: USA
Year: 1979
Duration: 147'
1969, during the Vietnam War. The story of Captain Benjamin L. Willard’s trip from Saigon deep into the Cambodian jungle. The objective of the special mission: to track down the US Army colonel Walter E. Kurtz - a former senior officer of the Green Berets who deserted long before - and kill the man. Onboard a Navy patrol boat, Willard and his crew descend the Nung River; after witnessing bombing raids, surviving gunfights with the Vietcong, and reaching American outposts lacking their commanders, he enters a true hell, at the end of which he finds the madman Kurtz, who is actually a clear-headed and merciless opponent of the American government and its imperialistic policies. Loosely based on Heart of Darkness by Conrad, the film was initially thought up by Lucas and then passed on to Coppola, who wrote it with John Milius. It is the greatest movie ever made about Vietnam, one of the great war epics of American film. And one of the best performances by Brando, fat, bald, diabolical.
Biography
film director
Francis Ford Coppola
(Detroit, MI, USA, 1939) after specializing in direction at the UCLA, he debuted in 1963 with Dementia 13, before directing movies like The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather - Part II, winner of six Oscars (for best movie and best director) and Apocalypse Now, winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes 1979. During the 1980s he made various films, including Rumble Fish and Cotton Club. In 1992 he received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in Venice and during the same year he directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Among the last movies directed by him: Youth Without Youth and Tetro, presented at the 2009 Torino Film Festival, ad well as Twixt. In 2024, he directed again another movie, the self-producted kolossal Megalopolis.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dementia 13 (Terrore alla tredicesima ora, 1963), You’re a Big Boy Now (Buttati Bernardo!, 1966), Finian's Rainbow (Sulle ali dell'arcobaleno, 1968), The Rain People (Non torno a casa stasera, 1969), The Godfather (Il Padrino, 1972), The Conversation (La conversazione, 1974), The Godfather - Part II (Il Padrino - Parte II, 1974), Apocalypse Now (id., 1979), One from the Heart (Un sogno lungo un giorno, 1982), The Outsiders (I ragazzi della 56ª strada, 1983), Rumble Fish (Rusty il selvaggio, 1983), The Cotton Club (Cotton Club, 1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (Peggy Sue si è sposata, 1986), Gardens of Stone (Giardini di pietra, 1987), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Tucker - Un uomo e il suo sogno, 1988), New York Stories (ep. Life without Zoë, La vita senza Zoe, ep., 1989), The Godfather - Part III (Il padrino - Parte III, 1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dracula di Bram Stoker, 1992), Jack (id., 1996), The Rainmaker (L’uomo della pioggia, 1997), Youth Without Youth (Un’altra giovinezza, 2007), Tetro (Segreti di famiglia, 2009), Twixt (2011), Megalopolis (id., 2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola. STORY: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. SCREENPLAY: Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, John Milius. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vittorio Storaro. EDITING: Walter Murch. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George Nelson. COSTUMES: Charles E. James. MUSIC: Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola. CAST: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper. PRODUCTION: Francis Ford Coppolap per United Artists, Zoetrope Production.
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