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

Giuseppe De Santis Giuseppe De Santis (11 February 1917 – 16 May 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was ...

. 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

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was awarded best actor at the

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Plot

Emil Kozma (

Bert Sotlar Bert Sotlar (1921–1992) was a Yugoslav film actor. He starred in the 1959 German film ''Dorothea Angermann''.Alpi p.249 Selected filmography * ''The House on the Coast'' (1954) * ''Three Quarters of a Sun'' (1959) * ''Dorothea Angermann ''Doro ...

), 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 Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the well-known soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caused a sensation ...

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 *

as Chiacchiera (Naklapalo) *

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 Milivoje Živanović ( sr-cyr, Миливоје Живановић; 2 April 1900 – 15 November 1976) was a renowned Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or somet ...

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 * Lia Rho-Barbieri as Roza *

Antun Vrdoljak Antun Vrdoljak (; born 5 June 1931) is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he becam ...

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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