The Road a Year Long

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	12 July 1958;
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

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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[Oscars1959-1] "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

[2] Don Franks (22 September 2004). Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide. McFarland, 2004. p. 278. ISBN 0786417986.

[3] Antonio Vitti (1996). Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema. University of Toronto Press, 1996. p. 101. ISBN 0802071414.

[4] "Baza HR kinematografije".

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