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BUENOS AIRES - US film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for thieves who broke into his Buenos Aires house to return a computer disk containing the screenplay for his new movie.
The director of The Godfather trilogy said the thieves carried off items including a laptop and a backup disk late on Wednesday.
"If someone could bring me back my backup, I'd be very happy. It would save me years of work," the five-time Oscar winner told a local television station.
Coppola, 68, said the disk also holds "all of the photographs of my life, all of my writing".
Coppola has set up a production company in the house in the Argentine capital, where next year he is expected to start shooting Tetro, a film about an artistic Italian immigrant family starring Matt Dillon.
It is said to be partially based on his life.
- REUTERS