No production has been as troubled as the 1979 war epic. As behind-the-scenes documentary Hearts of Darkness is re-released, its director, and two of those who were on set, reveal all.

«The way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam,» explained Francis Ford Coppola, after the Cannes Film Festival screening of Apocalypse Now in 1979. «We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and, little by little, we went insane.»