A Brief Vacation
Una breve vacanza
1973, Film, 112 min, Drama, Romance, Italian, Italy, MoviePedia score 64
For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.
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.
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Cast
- Florinda Bolkan as Clara Mataro
- Renato Salvatori as The Husband
- Daniel Quenaud as Luigi
- José María Prada as Ciranni
- Teresa Gimpera as Gina
- Hugo Blanco as The Brother-in-Law
- Julia Peña as Edvige
- Miranda Campa as Nurse Guidotti
- Angela Cardile as The Redhead
- Anna Carena as The Mother-in-Law
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