Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola

The 30th Athens International Film Festival and Onassis Culture present the Greece premiere of the much-anticipated saga Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola. Megalopolis is an epic sci-fi allegory featuring a pioneering architect and scientist with the ability to regulate time and space who builds his dream of a utopian metropolis of the future on a miraculous construction material.

Through this story, Coppola attempts to correlate the sociopolitical conditions that led ancient Rome to destruction with the image of a present-day America threatened by similar dangers and driven by similar passions. A baroque satire of human vanity and a certain romantic legacy of Coppola to future generations, Megalopolis has the magnum opus character and the audacity of a daring directorial insanity, whose equal is now rarely found in cinema.

The film will be presented at the Main Stage for a unique screening in specially designed viewing conditions hosted at selected events around the world.

American filmmaker, born in 1939. A seminal figure of the 1970s American cinema, he studied Theater at Hofstra and Cinema at UCLA. He was awarded five Oscars, two Palm d’Ors at Cannes, and countless other accolades. His four films from the 1970s are regarded as unparalleled achievement.

Filmography (selected): 2024 Megalopolis, 2007 Youth Without Youth, 1992 Dracula (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), 1990 The Godfather Part III, 1984 The Cotton Club, 1983 Rumble Fish, 1982 One from the Heart, 1979 Apocalypse Now, 1974 The Godfather Part II, 1974 The Conversation, 1972 The Godfather, 1969 The Rain People.