Summary
The first ever feature film by the great Gillo Pontecorvo with the legendary French actor Yves Montando and Italian star Alida Valli (nasce a Pola) in the lead roles. The film is set on a Dalmatian island and follows the life of a poor fisherman, Squarcia, who does not catch fish with nets but with dynamite, which the rest of the islanders find intolerable and incurs their anger, but despite all that they do not call it in to the authorities. However, difficult living conditions rarely give people the opportunity to avoid unintended consequences, so tragedy is inevitable. The movie was filmed in the area of the city Crikvenica and it is the first of two projects that the director made in Yugoslavia, made after the short story Squarciò by the Italian writer Franco Solinas, who was a frequent contributing writer to Gillo Pontecorvo, and wrote the screenplay for his most famous film, The Battle of Algiers.
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Novi List journalist Mišo Cvijanović, Art-kino decided to screen the film The Wide Blue Road by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, a film that Cvijanović watched in admiration as a boy in the streets of Crikvenica.
Festivals and awards
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1958 - Nominated for the Crystal Globe for Best Picture;
