Coppola Returns For 'Youth Without Youth'

[Friday, September 23rd, 2005]
Francis Ford CoppolaAfter an eight year hiatus, Francis Ford Coppola is to return to the directors chair for the low-budget adaptation Youth Without Youth, according to Variety.

The story centers on a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years before WWII. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.

Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz and Marcel will star in the project, which is currently slated to shoot in Bucharest October 3rd.

"I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality," Coppola said. "For me, it is indeed a return to the ambitions I had for work in cinema as a student."

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