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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.Read moreLess
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 story
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.
Cast & crew
Silvana PampaniniGiuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina)
Eleonora Rossi DragoSusanna
Massimo GirottiChiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Bert SotlarGuglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
Gordana MiletićAngela
Nikša StefaniniDavid
Antun VrdoljakBernardExplore the crew
- Director
- Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer
- Tonino Guerra
- Writer
- Giuseppe De Santis
- Writer
- Maurizio Ferrara
- Writer
- Mario Socrate
- Writer
- Gianni Puccini
- Director of Photography
- Marco Scarpelli
- Writer
- Elio Petri
- Editor
- Boris Tešija
- Original Music Composer
- Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić