World-renowned movie director Francis Ford Coppola is in Bulgaria shooting his latest film in the country's Black Sea town Balchik. Photo by BTA
World-renowned movie director Francis Ford Coppola is in Bulgaria shooting his latest film in the country's Black Sea town Balchik.
The director of such Hollywood classics as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and Dracula began filming the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Romanian author Mircea Eliade Youth without Youth in Bucharest.
Coppola will shoot part of the movie in the "Palace" residence in Balchik.
The film represents a "a return to the ambitions I had for work in cinema as a student", for Coppola, who said he was particularly attracted by the book's treatment of themes such as "time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality".
Britain's Tim Roth and Swiss actor Bruno Ganz star in the film, which tells the story of a teacher who, in the run-up to World War II, flees Romania for India following a cataclysmic episode.
The film is being shot in Bucharest, Brasov and Constanta on the Black Sea coast and is slated for release in late 2006 or early 2007.