A Brief Vacation
Una breve vacanza
1973 · 1h 52m · Drama, Romance · Spain, Italy · Rated PG (US)
For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.
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.
Directed by
Vittorio De SicaStory by
Rodolfo Sonego6.0Smart score
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