| 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 ( 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]
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.
- ^ Don Franks (22 September 2004). Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide. McFarland, 2004. p. 278. ISBN 0786417986.
- ^ Antonio Vitti (1996). Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema. University of Toronto Press, 1996. p. 101. ISBN 0802071414.
- ^ "Baza HR kinematografije".
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