A Brief Vacation (1973)
- Director(s):
- Vittorio De Sica
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of A Brief Vacation
Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan 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 was scripted by the prolific Cesar Zavattini, who like De Sica had once been a guiding force in the Italian neorealist movement. Though not De Sica's final film, A Brief Vacation was the last of the director's work to be released in America. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 112 mins
Complete Cast of A Brief Vacation
- Florinda Bolkan - Clara
- Angela Cardile - "La Rossa", the redhead
- Teresa Gimpera - Gina
- Jose Maria Prada - Ciranni
- Anna Carena - Mother-in-law
- Hugo Blanco - Brother-in-law
- Adriana Asti - Scanziani
- Christian de Sica - Mariani
- Monica Guerritore - Maria
- Renato Salvatori - Franco Mataro
- Daniel Quenaud - Luigi, Clara's lover
- Miranda Campa - Nurse Guidotti
- Director(s):
- Vittorio De Sica
- Writer(s):
- Cesare Zavattini
- Producer(s):
- Arthur Cohn
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Questionable for Children)
- 1975 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actress
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