Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit in 1939, the son of the solo flautist of Toscanini's orchestra. Struck by polio at the age of nine and bedridden for more than a year, he occupied himself with puppets, then shot films on eight-millimetre, graduated in 1967 from the film school of the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for the producer Roger Corman. He received two Palmes d'Or, in 1974 and 1979, filed for bankruptcy in the years following the failure of a musical film, and lost a son in 1986. He financed himself a film presented in 2024, by selling part of his wine business.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola · 1972Cinema
• CinemaApocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola · 1979Cinema