Youth Without Youth (film)
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| Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Screenplay by | Francis Ford Coppola |
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Youth Without Youth by Mircea Eliade |
| Starring |
Tim Roth Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara André Hennicke Marcel Iureş Adrian Pintea Andrei Gheorghe |
| Music by | Osvaldo Golijov |
| Cinematography | Mihai Mălaimare Jr. |
| Edited by | Walter Murch |
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Sony Pictures Classics (US) Pathé (UK/France) |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States Romania France Italy Germany |
| Language | English Sanskrit German French Italian Russian Romanian Mandarin Latin Armenian Egyptian |
| Box office | $2.6 million |
Youth Without Youth is a 2007 fantasy drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. It was the first film that Coppola had directed in ten years since 1997's The Rainmaker. It was distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States on December 14, 2007 and Pathé in the UK and France. The music was composed by Grammy Award-winning Argentinan classical composer Osvaldo Golijov. In an interview, Coppola said that he made the film as a meditation on time and on consciousness, which he considers a "changing tapestry of illusion," but he admitted that the film may also be appreciated as a beautiful love story, or as a mystery. The film is a co-production between the United States, Romania, France, Italy and Germany.
In 1938, Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), a 70-year-old professor of linguistics, pining after the love of his youth, Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara), travels to Bucharest, the city where he and she met at university. Feeling that his fruitless search for the origin of human language has condemned him to a solitary, wasted life, Dominic is intent on committing suicide after this one last journey. However, while crossing the street, he is abruptly yet non-lethally struck by lightning. In hospital, Professor Stanciulescu (Bruno Ganz) informs Dominic that, much to both their surprises, the lighting appears to have regenerated him into a much younger man. Soon after, while residing at the Professor's home, Dominic also discovers that he possesses strange, psychic capacities.
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