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Francis Ford Coppola Returns with 'Youth Without Youth' |
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Written by Bob Messinger
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Monday, 26 September 2005 |
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Source: Variety  | | Francis Ford Coppola | After an eight-year hiatus Francis Ford Coppola will return to directing with a self-financed, low-budget pic to film in Bucharest reports Variety.The bigscreen adaptation of Youth Without Youth is based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade. Coppola penned the screenplay and is producing through his American Zoetrope banner. "Youth" 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. |