Movie

A Brief Vacation (1973)

• PG
• July 21, 1973
• 1h 52m

• Drama
• Romance

“For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.”

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

Vittorio De Sica

Writers

Cesare Zavattini, Rodolfo Sonego, Rafael J. Salvia

Starring

Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud