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A Brief Vacation (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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: 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
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.
A Brief Vacation. Drama. 112 minutes ‧ 1973. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 5 min read. 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.
Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping mother-in-law. But when Clara is diagnosed as tubercular, she...
- (5)
- Drama
- PG
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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. Crew.
