Francis Ford Coppola has completed principal photography in Romania on his low-budget artistic rejuvenation project "Youth Without Youth" reports Variety.

Footage for the making-of docu of which has been shot by his wife Eleanor Coppola and "Apocalypse Now" editor Walter Murch. Coppola has now begun editing a rough cut in Bucharest of the 1930s-set drama starring Bruno Ganz as Professor Stancislescu, an academic forced to become a fugitive. Plan is for the passion pic, which started shooting in October, to be ready next year.

"Youth" marks Coppola's return to the director's chair eight years after "The Rainmaker." Coppola has said pic brings him back to the ambitions he had as a film student. The budget is roughly $ 5 million. Based on a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade, "Youth" also stars Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, and Marcel Iures.