A Brief Vacation
“For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.”
1973•PG•1h 52m•6.0•Released
DramaRomance
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.
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Cesare Zavattini, Rafael J. Salvia
Languages
Italian
Studio
Verona Produzione
Cast
Florinda Bolkan
Clara Mataro
Renato Salvatori
Franco Mataro, the husband
Daniel Quenaud
Luigi, Clara's lover
José María Prada
Ciranni
Teresa Gimpera
Gina
Hugo Blanco
The brother in law
Julia Peña
Edvige
Miranda Campa
Nurse Guidotti
Angela Cardile
The redhead
Anna Carena
The mother in law
Monica Guerritore
Maria
Maria Mizar
Nurse Garin
Alessandro Romanazzi
The son
Adriana Asti
Scanziani
Enrico Baroni
Production
Company
Verona Produzione
Company
Azor Films
Producer
Marina Cicogna
Producer
Arthur Cohn
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