# Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Documentary
**Directed by**: Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper
**Written by**: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
**Starring**: Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, John Milius, George Lucas, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall

> *The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Apocalypse Now meets disaster tourism. Francis Ford Coppola’s jungle shoot spirals into chaos with wars, cast illnesses, and monsoons. A chaotic chronicle of hubris in extremis.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw

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