Movies
TV Shows
People
26/10/2007 Fantasy, Drama, Mystery 2h 5m
61
User score

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.

  1. Francis Ford Coppola

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Tim Roth

    Dominic Matei

  2. Alexandra Maria Lara

    Veronica / Laura

  3. Bruno Ganz

    Professor Stanciulescu

  4. André Hennicke

    Dr. Josef Rudolf

  5. Marcel Iureș

    Professor Tucci

  6. Adrian Pintea

    Pandit

  7. Florin Piersic Jr.

    Dr. Gavrila

  8. Zoltan Butuc

    Dr. Chirila

  9. Anamaria Marinca

    Hotel Receptionist

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2018-06-24
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 “m...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. Fountain of Youth62%
  2. Northfork59%
  3. Mr. K63%
  4. Before I Fall69%
  5. Murder on the Orient Express67%
  6. Remember73%
  7. Hereafter61%
  8. Murder on the Orient Express71%
  9. Snow White and the Huntsman59%
  10. The Sense of an Ending64%
  11. Tatami77%
  12. Mio min Mio59%
  13. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones64%
  14. The Life of Chuck72%
  15. The Lovely Bones70%
  16. 16 Wishes63%
  17. Birth60%
  18. Orlando69%
  19. The Prestige82%
  20. The Bourne Ultimatum74%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,000,000.00

Revenue
$2,624,759.00

Keywords