Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a n
Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African
Colonel Kurtz
…Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz, from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Walter Kurtz was a career officer in the United States Army; he was a third-generation West Point graduate who had risen through the…
Heart of Darkness was first published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine.
Belgian river station on the Congo River, 1889
The Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'—French), the Belgian riverboat Conrad commanded on the upper Congo, 1889
Arthur Hodister [fr] (1847–1892), who Conrad's biographer Norman Sherry has argued served as one of the sources of inspiration for Kurtz