Coppola talks to thieves

Francis Ford Coppola told 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 that those men who had entered his house 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.

Coppola, 68, had on the disk "all of the photographs of my life, all of my writing."

Coppola has set up a production company in one 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 might to be based on his life.