Find Kurtz Apocalypse Now : The film follows Captain Montagnards in a campaign against the Viet Cong. Willard Army officer who is sent travels up the Nung River in Cambodia to Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), a United States a renegade Army officer who has gone insane and is leading a battalion of on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando) | Photo