''The Road a Year Long'' ( it, La strada lunga un anno, sh, Cesta duga godinu dana) is a 1958 film directed by

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. A Yugoslavian-Italian co-production, it was Yugoslavia's first ever submission for the

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and was nominated for the award at the

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in April 1959. It won the

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for

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. For his performance Massimo Girotti was awarded best actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

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...

Cast

* Silvana Pampanini as Giuseppina Pancrazi *

Eleonora Rossi Drago Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbro ...

as Susanna * Massimo Girotti as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo) * Bert Sotlar as Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma) *

Ivica Pajer Ivica Pajer (9 September 1934 – 17 August 2006) was a Yugoslavian-born Croatian actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying David before he became a king in the 1960 film ''David and Goliath'' starring Orson Welles of which Pajer is credited a ...

as Lorenco * Milivoje Živanović as Davide * Gordana Miletić as Angela * Nikša Stefanini as David *

Hermina Pipinić Hermina Pipinić (1 May 1928 – 19 December 2020) was a Croatian actress. She attended an acting school in Zagreb and debuted on stage in 1948 at the First Drama Theatre in Zagreb. Filmography Film roles * '' Milioni na otoku'' (1955) as ...

as Agneza *

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as Roza * Antun Vrdoljak as Bernard

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* 1958 films 1958 drama films Italian drama films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis Jadran Film films Italian black-and-white films Yugoslav black-and-white films Croatian black-and-white films Yugoslav drama films 1950s Italian films {{Yugoslavia-film-stub

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