Director/producer/screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola’s - ‘Youth Without Youth’, the helmer’s first feature film effort in 10 years. The World War II film will have its world premiere at the RomaCinemaFest in October.
Starring Tim Roth as an elderly professor whose apparent immortality makes him a target of the Nazis, the World War II-set tale was filmed in Romania.
The film also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Pirici, Marcel Iures and Andre Hennicke.
Coppola has written the film’s screenplay, which is based on a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
Coppola said:
This film represents a new period in my career, where I intend to make only personal films. I look forward to showing it at this new festival in Italy, whose great masters such as Rossellini, Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Antonioni inspired my early career.
Coppola won his first Academy Award for the screenplay of ‘Patton’ in 1971.
The legendry filmmaker has been nominated for Academy Award best director further three times and for the best picture award on four other occasions.
