The Year Long Road

The Year Long Road — Plot

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.

• Release date
• July 11, 1958
• Runtime
• 162 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Giuseppe De Santis

The Year Long Road — Cast

Silvana Pampanini Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina) Eleonora Rossi Drago Susanna Massimo Girotti Chiacchiera (Naklapalo) Bert Sotlar Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)

I

Ivica Pajer Lorenco

M

Milivoje Živanović Učitelj Gordana Miletić Angela Nikša Stefanini David