

A Brief Vacation
"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.
Movie Details
Languages
Italian
Studio
Verona Produzione
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Key Crew

Cesare Zavattini
Writer

Vittorio De Sica
Director

Rodolfo Sonego
Story

Arthur Cohn
Producer

Rafael J. Salvia
Writer

Marina Cicogna
Producer
Cast

Florinda Bolkan
Clara Mataro

Renato Salvatori
Franco Mataro, the husband
Daniel Quenaud
Luigi, Clara's lover

José María Prada
Ciranni

Teresa Gimpera
Gina

Hugo Blanco
The brother in law
Julia Peña
Edvige

Miranda Campa
Nurse Guidotti
Angela Cardile
The redhead

Anna Carena
The mother in law

Monica Guerritore
Maria

Maria Mizar
Nurse Garin
Alessandro Romanazzi
The son

Adriana Asti
Scanziani
Enrico Baroni
Edda Conti
Lia Giovannella
Franca Mazzoni
Giampaolo Rossi

Luigi Antonio Guerra