A Brief Vacation
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1973-07-21
Runtime: 112 mins
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Cesare Zavattini, Rafael J. Salvia
Spoken language: Italiano
Genres: Drama, Romance
Original title: A Brief Vacation
Production Companies: Verona Produzione, Azor Films
Production Countries: Spain, Italy
Cast
Florinda Bolkan
Renato Salvatori
Daniel Quenaud
José María Prada
Teresa Gimpera
Hugo Blanco
Julia Peña
Miranda Campa
Angela Cardile
Anna Carena
Monica Guerritore
Maria Mizar
Alessandro Romanazzi
Adriana Asti
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