Story about Youth Without Youth / L'homme sans âge / 没有青春的青春 / 迷失青春 / 逆转年华 / 第三朵玫瑰 / 衰老的青春
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cata...
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remain unable to complete his life's work on the origin of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some year later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand?