The Year Long Road (1958)
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis · 162 min · Drama
9.1 TOPICAL score · #5,703 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
The Year Long Road (1958, directed by Giuseppe De Santis) has a TOPICAL score of 9.1 - ranked 5,703 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on lasting engagement. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.7/10 (6 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 12 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.7/10 (6 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 12 languages
- Still read379 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti (actor #1,353), Bert Sotlar