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.
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Silvana Pampanini
Giuseppina Pancrazi (Katarina)
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Susanna
Massimo Girotti
Chiacchiera (Naklapalo)
Bert Sotlar
Guglielmo Cosma (Emil Kozma)
Ivica Pajer
Lorenco
Milivoje Živanović
Učitelj
Gordana Miletić
Angela
Nikša Stefanini
David
Hermina Pipinić
Agneza
Lia Rho-Barbieri
Roza
Antun Vrdoljak
Bernard
Branko Tatić
Antonio
Radojko Jezić
Načelnik
Nada Škrinjar
Matilda
Rikard Brzeska
Giuseppe De Santis
Director
Elio Petri
Writer
Tonino Guerra
Writer
Gianni Puccini
Writer
Giuseppe De Santis
Writer
Mario Socrate
Writer
Maurizio Ferrara
Writer
Marco Scarpelli
Director of Photography
Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić
Original Music Composer
Boris Tešija
Editor
Jagoda Buic
Costume Design
Želimir Zagotta
Production Design
