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Bookmark this pageA Brief Vacation (1973)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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From Time Out Film Guide
De Sica and Zavattini administer the last rites over the corpse of neo-realism in this travesty which starts with one of those vociferous Italian domestic squabbles, but soon switches to masturbatory fantasy with a gushy celebration of romance in a mountain TB sanatorium. Bolkan, as the working-class housewife drudging to feed a thankless family who is sent to the clinic at the government's expense, deserves better.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Producer: Marina Cicogna, Arthur Cohn
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José Maria Prada, Teresa Gimpera, Adriana Asti full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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