A Brief Vacation
7.5
“For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.”
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.
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Cast
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Florinda Bolkan
Clara Mataro
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Renato Salvatori
Franco Mataro, the husband
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Daniel Quenaud
Luigi, Clara's lover
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La chaise vide
Love
José María Prada
Ciranni
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Teresa Gimpera
Gina
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Hugo Blanco
The brother in law
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Julia Peña
Edvige
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Miranda Campa
Nurse Guidotti
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Angela Cardile
The redhead
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Divorce Italian Style
A Pain in the Ass
Anna Carena
The mother in law
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Miracle in Milan
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Monica Guerritore
Maria
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Maria Mizar
Nurse Garin
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Vittorio De Sica Director · Cesare Zavattini Writer Rafael J. Salvia Writer
United States release February 9, 1975 · Produced in Spain, Italy · Production Azor Films
Production
Verona Produzione
Production
Azor Films
Production
Spain · Italy
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Original title
Una breve vacanza
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · July 21, 1973
Theatrical · Taormina Film Festival
United States · February 9, 1975
Theatrical
Italy
August 14, 1973 · Theatrical · Alassio Film Festival
August 31, 1973 · Theatrical · Venice Film Festival
Spain
June 2, 1975 · Theatrical
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