Youth Without Youth

(2007)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 248 votes

Genres: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Year: 2007

Runtime: 125 мин

Country: United States of America, Romania

Director: Фрэнсис Форд Коппола

Cast: Тим Рот, Александра Мария Лара, Bruno Ganz, Андре Хеннике, Марсель Юрес, Adrian Pintea, Флорин Пьерсик мл., Zoltan Butuc, Анамария Маринка, Alexandra Pirici

Plot

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

Christmas Eve, 1937, Piatra Neamt, Romania: Dominic Matei, a 70-year-old professor, contemplates suicide. The love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. On April 24th 1938, Easter Sunday, he takes a train to Bucharest to kill himself, but suddenly he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he miraculously grows younger and gains superhuman powers. WWII breaks out and Romania's fascist dictator Ion Antonescu cooperates with Adolf Hitler. Matei must escape to Switzerland, because Nazi scientists want to use his powers...Some years later, he meets a woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research...Coppola's adaptation of Mircea Eliade's surreal novella is a mysterious, romantic, melancholic and humorous journey to the outer limits of space, time and identity. Dreams become reality and reality feels like a dream...