Year: 1979

Running Time: 02:27:17 (147 Min)

File: Apocalypse Now {1979}.mp4

Audio: English

Subtitles: English / Spanish (srt. files)
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), of MACV-SOG, on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando).

The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim[citation needed] (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). The film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse documented Brando's showing up on the set overweight, Sheen's heart attack, and extreme weather destroying several expensive sets. The film's release was postponed several times while Coppola edited millions of feet of footage.

Apocalypse Now earned widespread critical acclaim. Its cultural impact and philosophical themes have been extensively discussed. Honored with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the film was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 2000.
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El Capitán Willard es un oficial de los servicios de inteligencia del ejército estadounidense al que se le ha encomendado en Camboya la peligrosa misión de eliminar a Kurtz, un coronel renegado que se ha vuelto loco. En el corazón de la selva, en un campamento sembrado de cabezas cortadas y cadáveres putrefactos, la enorme y enigmática figura de Kurtz reina como un buda despótico sobre los miembros de la tribu Montagnard, que le adoran como a un dios.