Una breve vacanza

"For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one."

Feb 9 1975 PG 1h 52m
Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Rafael J. Salvia, Rodolfo Sonego, Cesare Zavattini

Directed by

Vittorio De Sica

Cast

Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud

Crew

View crew

Production Countries

Italy, Spain

Production Companies

Verona Produzione, Azor Films

Languages

Italiano

Awards

5 wins & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
1,017
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA