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Adriana Asti, Florinda Bolkan, Angela Cardile, Christian De Sica, Teresa Gimpera ... see more see more... , Monica Guerritore , José María Prada , Renato Salvatori , Anna Carena , Daniel Quenaud , Hugo Blanco , Miranda Campa

Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtr... read more read more...usive brother and mother, Bolkan 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 was scripted by the prolific Cesar Zavattini, who like De Sica had once been a guiding force in the Italian neorealist movement. Though not De Sica's final film, A Brief Vacation was the last of the director's work to be released in America. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Vittorio De Sica

Release Date: August 14, 1973

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DVD Release Date: December 16, 2003

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Dennis Schwartz
June 7, 2010
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This was De Sica's penultimate film and his last film released in America. Full Review

Nora Sayre
May 9, 2005
Nora Sayre, New York Times

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October 23, 2004
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