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The Year Long Road (1958)
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Drama · 2h 42m
Set in an unspecified country and an unspecified time period, the film follows a communist intelectual who, after travelling the world for many decades, decides to return and settle down to the place he grew up in, a small coastal village seemingly forgotten by time itself. With him, he brings news of the dawn of a new world on the horizon, with which he wishes to connect with through constructing a modern highway. This news is welcomed in the village, however, the construction of the road begins to bring out violent conflicts, reveals forbidden romances and ends up regressing the community even further into the darkness from which it wanted to escape.
Cast
Silvana Pampanini
Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina)
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Susanna
Massimo Girotti
Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Bert Sotlar
Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
I
Ivica Pajer
Lorenco
M
Milivoje Živanović
Učitelj
Gordana Miletić
Angela
Nikša Stefanini
David
H
Hermina Pipinić
Agneza
L
Lia Rho-Barbieri
Roza
Antun Vrdoljak
Bernard
B
Branko Tatić
Antonio
Crew
- Director
- Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer
- Giuseppe De Santis, Maurizio Ferrara, Tonino Guerra, Elio Petri, Gianni Puccini, Mario Socrate
- Director of Photography
- Marco Scarpelli
- Original Music Composer
- Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić
- Editor
- Boris Tešija
Details
- Original title
- Cesta duga godinu dana
- Release date
- 1958-07-11
- Runtime
- 2h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- HR
- Spoken languages
- Croatian
- Countries
- Italy, Yugoslavia
- Production
- Jadran film, Croatia Film