The Road a Year Long

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The Road a Year Long
The Road a Year Long.jpg
Italian release poster
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Written byGiuseppe De Santis
Starring Silvana Pampanini
Cinematography Marco Scarpelli
Edited byBoris Tešija
Music byVladimir Kraus-Rajterić
Release date
  • 12 July 1958 (1958-07-12)
Running time
162 minutes
CountriesItaly
Yugoslavia
LanguageItalian

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]

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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]

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References

  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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