Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrads famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankol 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 1979s Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando, which loosely adapted it and updated it to the Vietnam War.
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.Furthermore, Malkovich was nominated for both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1995. ........
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