Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 American documentary film about the production of "Apocalypse Now," the 1979 Vietnam War epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad novella "Heart of Darkness", the source material for "Apocalypse Now". Using behind-the-scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, the documentary chronicles how production problems—among them bad weather, actors' poor health, and other issues—delayed the film, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of its director, her husband, Francis Ford Coppola. In 1990, Coppola turned her material
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