fantasy drama directed
by : Francis Ford Coppola featuring
: Tim Roth - Bruno Ganz - Alexandra Maria Lara - Marcel Iures running
time : 2 hours 4 minutes
Legendary director
Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus
with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing
the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World
War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the seventy year-old scholar
is stricken by lightning, his age begins to reverse as his mind grows infinitely
more brilliant. Now determined to understand the origins of language and
consciousness, the fugitive professor leads authorities on a wild chase
through Romania, Switzerland, Malta, and India. Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra
Maria Lara, and Marcel Iures star in an ambitious low-budget drama trumpeted
by Zoetrope as a "return to personal filmmaking" for the revered Godfather
director.
