In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness. Commissioned by April R. (5/21/22).

Release date: August 15, 1979 (USA)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando; Robert Duvall; Martin Sheen; Frederic Forrest; Albert Hall; Sam Bottoms; Larry Fishburne; Dennis Hopper
Awards: Palme d’Or, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, MORE
Adapted from: Heart of Darkness, Dispatches
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures Studios, Lionsgate, American Zoetrope, Miramax, StudioCanal, United Artists, StudioCanal UK