The Road a Year Long
| The Road a Year Long | |
|---|---|
 Italian release poster | |
| 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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 162 minutes |
| Countries | Italy Yugoslavia |
| Language | Italian |
The Road a Year Long (
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]
Plot
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]
Cast
- Silvana Pampanini as Giuseppina Pancrazi
- Eleonora Rossi Drago as Susanna
- Massimo Girotti as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
- Bert Sotlar as Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
- Ivica Pajer as Lorenco
- Milivoje Živanović as Davide
- Gordana Miletić as Angela
- Nikša Stefanini as David
- Hermina Pipinić as Agneza
- Lia Rho-Barbieri as Roza
- Antun Vrdoljak as Bernard
See also
- List of submissions to the 31st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
- ISBN 0786417986.
- ISBN 0802071414.
- ^ "Baza HR kinematografije".
External links
- The Road a Year Long at IMDb
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