Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé and James Fox. The show is the third screen adaptation of the novella, following a 1958 television adaptation for the anthology series "Playhouse 90" starring Boris Karloff, and 1979's "Apocalypse Now" with Marlon Brando, which loosely adapted it and updated it to the Vietnam War. The film was filmed as a co-production with Ted Turner's Turner Pictures, and then aired by his TNT network. Ivory
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) Josef Škvorecký's novel "The Engineer of Human Souls" Kurtz is seen as the epitome of exterminatory colonialism. James Reich's novel "Mistah Kurtz!" (Anti-Oedipus Press 2016) is a prelude to "Heart of Darkness" that presents meticulous and controversial solutions to the origins, mystery and messianic deterioration of Kurtz. Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness". A trader of ivory in Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolises his position as a demigod among native Africans. Kurtz meets with the novella's protagonist, Charles Marlow, who returns him to the coast