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A Brief Vacation (1973)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
“For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 52m
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Cast
Florinda Bolkan
Clara Mataro
Renato Salvatori
Franco Mataro, the husband
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Daniel Quenaud
Luigi, Clara's lover
José María Prada
Ciranni
Teresa Gimpera
Gina
Hugo Blanco
The brother in law
J
Julia Peña
Edvige
Miranda Campa
Nurse Guidotti
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Angela Cardile
The redhead
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Anna Carena
The mother in law
Monica Guerritore
Maria
Maria Mizar
Nurse Garin
Crew
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Writer
- Cesare Zavattini, Rafael J. Salvia
- Director of Photography
- Ennio Guarnieri
- Editor
- Franco Arcalli
- Producer
- Marina Cicogna, Arthur Cohn
Details
- Original title
- Una breve vacanza
- Release date
- 1973-07-21
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Spain, Italy
- Production
- Verona Produzione, Azor Films