A Brief Vacation

A Brief Vacation

112 mins | Drama, Romance | July 21, 1973

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

112 mins | Drama, Romance | July 21, 1973

A Brief Vacation
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Verona Produzione, Azor Films
Original title Una breve vacanza
Directors Serena Canevari, Luisa Alessandri, Vittorio De Sica
Writers Rodolfo Sonego, Rafael J. Salvia, Cesare Zavattini

Cast

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

Maria Mizar

as Nurse Garin

Adriana Asti

as Scanziani

Christian De Sica

as Mariani, Il Giovane In Treno (uncredited)