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 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 (1958-07-12)
Running time	162 minutes
Countries	Italy Yugoslavia
Language	Italian

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