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- BFI identifier2444
- Date1979 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in the Vietnam War. Captain Benjamin Willard is assigned to locate the renegade Colonel Kurtz in his Cambodian jungle retreat and to "terminate his command". It tells the story of an American captain's mission to assassinate a renegade colonel who is waging a brutal unsanctioned war in Cambodia. Based on the 1899 Joseph Conrad novel 'Heart of darkness'. (Synopsis)
- Work historyRe-released in 2001 as APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, approx. 50mins longer; credits specific to that version are tagged with [R] New version ©/copyrighted 2000. BNFVC Notes: Apocolypse Now Redux: The director's re-edited version of his 1979 Vietnam war drama `Apocalypse now', some 49 minutes longer, with the addition of a number of extra scenes. Based on the 1899 Joseph Conrad novel `Heart of darkness'. Set during the Vietnam War, tells the story of an American captain's mission to assassinate a renegade colonel who is waging a brutal unsanctioned war in Cambodia. Released in a variety of versions. 2001: longer re-edit supervised by Coppola went under the publicity title APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX. Revised version (restored and expanded to 203 minutes) makes debut at Cannes film festival 2001. Variety: 203 mins (Technicolor. Technovision widescreen. Dolby SRD).
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- Credits
- CastMarlon Brando (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz)
Robert Duvall (Lt Colonel Bill Kilgore)
Martin Sheen (Captain Benjamin L. Willard)
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Title
Apocalypse Now (Original)
Apocalypse Now Redux (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/AE0D-9935-C362-3667-9FC3-TCategory
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-88
Script - Original story: Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - SCR-983
Script - Original story: Novel, 'Heart of Darkness' by Jospeph Conrad - SCR-3707
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-2444
Small pressbook held. Music cue sheet held. See FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION MATERIAL List (Credit Obligations) and see SANDY LIEBERSON Collection List. Item held in Information folders for APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-4d1
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-4d0
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-187
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-186
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-185
view all - ArticlesCinéaste v27 n1 Winter 2001 - Credits, ReviewSight and Sound v11 n11 November 2001 - ArticleTotal Film n20 September 1998 - Articleview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes August 2012
BFI Southbank Programme Notes December 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Apocalypse Now
Work - 2444 - 1979 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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