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Una Breve Vacanza (A Brief Vacation) (1973)

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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 obtrusive 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

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Dec 16, 2003

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

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