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Apocalypse Now (1979)


Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne and Dennis Hopper
Script
: John Milius, Francis Coppola, Michael Herr
Director of Photography
: Vittorio Storaro
Director
: Francis Coppola


Plot:

At the height of the Vietnam War, Captain Willard receives orders to follow the Mekong River into Cambodia to seek out and assassinate the renegade Colonel Kurtz and his military outpost. But what Willard actually ends up seeking is the catharsis to his own involvement in the war that surrounds him.


 

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Crew

Francis Ford Coppola at the Carmine Coppola
John Milius  
Michael Herr
Jerry Ziesmer
Marlon Brando Martin Sheen Robert Duvall Larry Fishburne Albert Hall Frederick Forrest  
Sam Bottoms
Dennis Hopper Harrison Ford Bill Graham Scott Glenn
G. D. Spradlin

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