The Year Long Road
1958 · 162 min
Drama
★ 6.7Set 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.
Crew
- Director Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer Tonino Guerra
- Writer Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer Maurizio Ferrara
- Writer Mario Socrate
- Writer Gianni Puccini
- Writer Elio Petri
- Director of Photography Marco Scarpelli
Cast
Silvana Pampanini
Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina)
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Susanna
Massimo Girotti
Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Bert Sotlar
Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
- I
Ivica Pajer
Lorenco
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 — Tonino Guerra
- Writer — Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer — Maurizio Ferrara
- Writer — Mario Socrate
- Writer — Gianni Puccini
- Writer — Elio Petri
- Director of Photography — Marco Scarpelli
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