Taglines: For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.
A Brief Vacation movie storyline. A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps.
At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end. When she is cured, she has to return to that rathole from which she only briefly emerged.
A Brief Vacation (Italian: Una breve vacanza) is a 1973 Italian melodrama directed by Vittorio de Sica. The script, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage (“Sickness is the vacation of the poor”). The film stars Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, Hugo Blanco, Teresa Gimpera, José María Prada, Julia Peña, Monica Guerritore, Adriana Asti, Alessandro Romanazzi end Miranda Campa.
A Brief Vacation (1973)
Directed by: Vittorio de Sica
Starring: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, Hugo Blanco, Teresa Gimpera, José María Prada, Julia Peña, Monica Guerritore, Adriana Asti, Alessandro Romanazzi, Miranda Campa
Screenplay by: Cesare Zavattini
Cinematography by: Ennio Guarnieri
Film Editing by: Franco Arcalli
Costume Design by: Nadia Vitali
Set Decoration by: A. D’Angelo
Art Direction by: Luigi Scaccianoce
Music by: Manuel De Sica
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Allied Artists (United States)
Release Date: February 9, 1975 (United States)
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