A Brief Vacation
For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.
1973 · 1h 52m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Vittorio De Sica
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.
Director and cast
- Vittorio De Sica Director
- Florinda Bolkan as Clara Mataro
- Renato Salvatori as Franco Mataro, the husband
- Daniel Quenaud as Luigi, Clara's lover
- 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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