Youth Without Youth (2007)

R10/26/2007Fantasy, Drama, Mystery2h 4m

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Tim Roth

    Dominic Matei

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    Alexandra Maria Lara

    Veronica / Laura

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    Bruno Ganz

    Professor Stanciulescu

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    André Hennicke

    Dr. Josef Rudolf

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    Marcel Iureș

    Professor Tucci

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    Adrian Pintea

    Pandit

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    Florin Piersic Jr.

    Dr. Gavrila

  8. Zoltan Butuc

    Dr. Chirila

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    Anamaria Marinca

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Equal parts fascinating, entertaining, beautiful, inscrutable, contrived and tedious RELEASED IN 2007, "Youth Without Youth" was Francis Ford Coppola's return to filmmaking after a ten-year absence. The story revolves around a 70 year-old man (Tim Roth) in Romania at the outset of WWII who is struck by lightning and miraculously regains his youth, looking like a 40 year-old man. He acquires amazing powers as well, like psycho-kinesis and the ability to "read" a book by "scanning" it with his mind. The Nazi's catch wind of his amazing evolution and want to study him to contribute to the “mas...