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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.
- (982)
- Drama, Romance
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1975-02-09
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.
Dec 16, 2003 · "A Brief Vacation" tells the story of Clara (Florinda Bolkan) a housewife, with 3 children, who lives with her mother and brother in-law. Clara is the only one who works, since her husband was in an accident and broke his leg. But still she is expected to do for everyone and remain unappreicated.
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- 1 hour and 52 minutes
- Italian
- DVD
A Brief Vacation. Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping...
- (5)
- Vittorio De Sica
- PG
- Drama
Sep 2, 2019 · Clara 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’s sent to a sanatorium in the Alps that proves the greatest vacation of her life.
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.
