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By what name was A Brief Vacation (1973) officially released in Canada in English? A Brief Vacation (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
106 minutes. Countries. Italy. Spain. Language. Italian. 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").
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.
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. She’s been diagnosed as a tuberculosis victim and sent to a sanitorium in the mountains ...
Una breve vacanza / A Brief Vacation (Vittorio De Sica, 1973) 9/10 De Sica returns to his roots at the end of his long career exploring the plight of the working class. The screenplay by De Sica's longtime collaborator, Cesare Zavattini (a proponent of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema), was inspired by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's adage - "Sickness is the vacation of the poor".
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Overview. 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. Vittorio De Sica. Director. Rodolfo Sonego ...
