Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991 · 96 min · EN · R · 7.9 (319 votes)
Dir. Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola · Starring Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, John Milius, George Lucas, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall · Music Todd Boekelheide

The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now

Documentary

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

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Witness the sheer, unhinged ambition and ego-driven madness behind a legendary film's disastrous production. It's a chaotic, often terrifying descent into the abyss of creative obsession, where reality blurs with the art being made.

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