Heart of Darkness (1993 film)
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Duration Country USA | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Running time 1h 40m Music director S. Myers Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 13 March 1994 Cast Similar movies The Good Shepherd , Congo , The African Queen , Forest of the Dancing Spirits , Året Var 1961 Tagline The jungle offers incredible riches, but its price can be deadly. |
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.
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The film was filmed as a co-production with Ted Turner's Turner Pictures, and then aired by his TNT network.
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Plot
Ivory trader Captain Charles Marlow (Roth) is sent up the Congo River to retrieve cargo, and along the way, learns of the successful and enigmatic trader Kurtz (Malkovich), who is worshiped as a god by the natives.
Cast
Awards
The series won and was nominated for several awards, including:
Furthermore, Malkovich was nominated for both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1995.
References
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