reported by Brian Scott, CyberScreenwriter.com

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American distribution rights for Francis Ford Coppola?s YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH.

Coppola wrote, directed, and produced YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, adapting the screenplay from a novella by legendary Romanian author Mircea Eliade. YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH marks Coppola?s long-awaited return to personal filmmaking -- harkening back to earlier projects such as THE RAIN PEOPLE and THE CONVERSATION. It is his first film in a decade.

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis in this World War II-era parable. ?It is a love story wrapped in a mystery," said Coppola.