The Road a Year Long

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
Italian release poster
Directed byGiuseppe De Santis
Written byGiuseppe De Santis
StarringSilvana Pampanini
Music byVladimir Kraus-Rajterić
CinematographyMarco Scarpelli
Edited byBoris Tešija
Release date
  • 12 July 1958 (1958-07-12)
Running time
162 minutes
CountryItaly
Yugoslavia
LanguageItalian

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

See also

References
  1. "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. Don Franks. Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide. McFarland, 2004. p. 278. ISBN 0786417986.
  3. Antonio Vitti. Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema. University of Toronto Press, 1996. p. 101. ISBN 0802071414.
  4. http://hrfilm.hr/baza_film.php?id=2
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