The World War Two-set "Youth Without Youth" will screen during Italy's second annual RomaCinemaFest (October 18-27), sales agent Pathe Pictures International said.

Tim Roth stars as an elderly professor whose apparent immortality makes him a target of the Nazis. Coppola also wrote the screenplay, based on the novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.

"This film represents a new period in my career, where I intend to make only personal films," said Coppola. "I look forward to showing it at this new festival in Italy, whose great masters such as Rossellini, Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Antonioni inspired my early career."

"Youth," Coppola's first film since 1997's "The Rainmaker," also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Pirici, Marcel Iures and Andre Hennicke.