The Road a Year Long
| The Road a Year Long | |
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| Directed by | Giuseppe De Santis |
| Written by | Giuseppe De Santis |
| Starring | Silvana Pampanini |
| Cinematography | Marco Scarpelli |
| Edited by | Boris Tešija |
| Music by | Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić |
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Running time | 162 minutes |
| Countries | Italy Yugoslavia |
| Language | Italian |
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.