At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

• DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
• Release19 May 1979
• Genre
  Drama / War
• Duration2h 27m
• Budget$31,500,000
• Revenue$150,000,000
• Rate
  

  8.272
  8566 reviews
• Productions

  United Artists, American Zoetrope