The Road a Year Long (1958)

Original title

La strada lunga un anno

Directed by

Giuseppe De Santis

Genre

drama film

Country

Yugoslavia, Italy

Runtime

2h 42m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of villagers in a remote Yugoslavian region work together to build a road over the course of a year. The film follows their struggles with the harsh landscape and each other as they try to connect their isolated community to the outside world.

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What happens

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. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. For his performance Massimo Girotti was awarded best actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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