The Year Long Road
Cesta duga godinu dana1958
- Giuseppe De Santis
- 2h 42m
- July 11, 1958 · Italy, Yugoslavia
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 11, 1958
- Original language
- Italian
- Spoken languages
- Croatian, French, Italian
- Countries
- Italy, Yugoslavia
- Production
- Jadran Film,Croatia Film
- Cast
- Silvana Pampanini,Eleonora Rossi Drago,Massimo Girotti,Bert Sotlar,Ivica Pajer,Milivoje Živanović,Gordana Miletić,Nikša Stefanini,Hermina Pipinić,Lia Rho-Barbieriand 21 more
- Director
- Giuseppe De Santis
- Cinematography
- Marco Scarpelli
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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