The Year Long Road

Name: The Year Long Road
Director: Giuseppe De Santis
Released: 1958
Duration: 162 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti, Bert Sotlar, Ivica Pajer

1958 · 162 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 199 VOTES · DIR. Giuseppe De Santis

Overview

Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road; accordingly, the plot concerns a joint, voluntary effort between Italy and Yugoslavia to construct a highway along the countries' Naturally, this animosity wreaks havoc on the various Romeo-Juliet romances in the region. All is resolved when oil is discovered on one of the islands. An American oil company is finally able to establish détente between the warring factions, smoothing the path for the long-delayed marriages of three young couples.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,780 lines

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00:00:18 THE YEARLONG ROAD

00:08:58 There'll be a scandal, I'll be so ashamed!

00:13:58 That's not how to behave! - They've sucked up to the mayor!

00:18:37 What you see is at your disposal!

00:23:38 Do you understand?

00:28:22 we must forget about the road!

00:36:16 Aside from your business.

00:40:33 It's the house of one whose husband's in America. For about five or six years.

00:44:48 Repair our bell tower, go into the vineyards, clean the rows..

00:51:22 And suppose I give you the land, what can you give me in return?

00:57:45 Yeah.

01:02:33 Look here.

01:09:47 hardly leave their houses. The land seemed inhabited only by women.

01:16:23 Let's all go, this very day!

01:23:30 And you, if you drink, will get taller.

01:28:47 If I'd left.. I'd send you a telegram a day.

01:36:49 With the streams one is never sure.

01:42:50 A year ago we didn't even know how to hold a hammer.

01:51:47 David!

02:00:01 Traitor! Cochon!

02:07:07 I'd be down there as well.

02:13:32 It's not that I don't trust you, but..

02:21:23 If you still want the duty contract, you must pay the Town two years in advance.

02:26:52 But just look what they reduced this study to.

Cast & Characters

Silvana Pampanini Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina) Eleonora Rossi Drago Susanna Massimo Girotti Chiacchiera (Naklapalo) Bert Sotlar Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma) Ivica Pajer Lorenco Milivoje Zivanovic Ucitelj Gordana Miletic Angela Niksa Stefanini David Hermina Pipinic Agneza Lia Rho-Barbieri Roza

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,780

Dialogue density11.0 lines / min

First line00:00:18

Final line02:26:52

Production Record

DirectorGiuseppe De Santis

LanguageItalian

IMDb votes199