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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").
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.
A Brief Vacation. Roger Ebert January 01, 1975. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
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 (1975) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis 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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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 is a quiet Italian drama from 1973, directed by Vittorio De Sica who was acclaimed for The Bicycle Thief a quarter century earlier. Florinda Bolkan plays a female factory worker in Milan whose husband's employment has been sidelined for the time being by injury.
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Feb 9, 1975 · 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 was scripted by the prolific Cesar Zavattini, who like De Sica had once been a guiding force in the Italian neorealist movement.
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. It's a love story, a very brief and poignant one, surrounded by a lot of anger. And it's a "woman's picture" of the new sort, the kind in which...
