Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now", "Dracula", "The Rainmaker") returns to directing after an eight-year hiatus. The 66-year-old American filmmaker will work on a self-financed, low-budget pic to lense in Bucharest, according to Variety.

Coppola penned the screenplay for "Youth Without Youth", based on a novel by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade, which is to be produced through his American Zoetrope banner.

Production for the movie starring Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara and Marcel Iures is scheduled to begin on October 3rd.

The movie revolves around a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years before WWII. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.