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A Brief Vacation (Italian: Una breve vacanza) is a 1973 melodrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor").
A Brief Vacation. She leads a grim existence as a factory worker. Her husband has been hit by a motorcycle and is laid off with a broken leg. Her brother-in-law spies on her and her mother-inlaw spits on her.
Feb 9, 1975 · A Brief Vacation: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José María Prada. Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.
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- Drama, Romance
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1975-02-09
Dec 16, 2003 · She's sent to a sanitorium in the Italian Alps for rest and treatment, where she's befriended by wealthy and working-class patients alike, and falls in love with a charming Frenchman (Daniel Quenaud) who promises everything she's denied by her selfish, jealous husband.
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- DVD
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.
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- Verona Produzione, Azor Films
- Vittorio De Sica
A Brief Vacation (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A Brief Vacation. Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping...
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- Drama
- PG
