George Lucas filmed Coppola losing his mind so you don't have to.
A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew creating the 1969 film "The Rain People."
Direction
Lucas captures raw, vérité chaos before he sold out to space wizards.
Production
A time capsule of indie filmmaking before it became an aesthetic.
Director
George Lucas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lucas made this while Coppola let him use free equipment from Zoetrope—basically paying rent with documentary labor.
This is essentially the birth of the 'making-of' genre, predating DVD extras by decades. Lucas invented the content he would later refuse to release.
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