The Road a Year Long (Italian: La strada lunga un anno, Serbo-Croatian: Cesta duga godinu dana) is a 1958 film directed by Giuseppe De Santis. A Yugoslavian-Italian co-production, it was Yugoslavia's first ever submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the award at the 31st Academy Awards in April 1959.[1] It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2] For his performance Massimo Girotti was awarded best actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival.[3]
The Road a Year Long | |
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Directed by | Giuseppe De Santis |
Written by | Giuseppe De Santis |
Starring | Silvana Pampanini |
Cinematography | Marco Scarpelli |
Edited by | Boris Tešija |
Music by | Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić |
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Running time | 162 minutes |
Countries | Italy Yugoslavia |
Language | Italian |
Emil Kozma (Bert Sotlar), a peasant from an isolated mountain village, starts building a road to a nearby town. Over time, other villagers join the endeavor, believing the construction is state-sponsored. Ultimately, they discover Kozma started the works on his own initiative and without a permit, but it is already too late to stop the project...[4]
Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis | |
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Tragic Hunt (1947) • Bitter Rice (1949) • No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950) • Rome 11:00 (1952) • A Husband for Anna (1953) • Days of Love (1954) • The Wolves (1956) • The Road a Year Long (1958) • La garçonnière (1960) • Attack and Retreat (1965) • Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972) |
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