A Brief Vacation
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| Italian | Una breve vacanza |
| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Written by | Cesare Zavattini |
| Produced by | Arthur Cohn |
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| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
| Music by | Manuel De Sica |
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| Distributed by | Cinema International Corporation |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
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| Language | Italian |
A Brief Vacation (Italian: Una breve vacanza) is a 1973 melodrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor").
Synopsis
The film concerns a female factory worker from
class struggle
.
Cast
- Florinda Bolkan as Clara Mataro
- Renato Salvatori as Franco Mataro, the husband
- Daniel Quenaud as Luigi, Clara's lover
- José María Prada as Dr. Ciranni
- Teresa Gimpera as Gina
- Hugo Blanco as brother-in-law
- Julia Peña as Edvige
- Miranda Campa as Nurse Guidotti
- Angela Cardile as the redhead
- Anna Carena as mother-in-law
- Monica Guerritore as Maria
- Maria Mizar as Nurse Garin
- Alessandro Romanazzi as son
- Adriana Asti as Scanziani
- Christian De Sica as Mariani
Critical reception
The film was nominated for
Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review.[1]
Florinda Bolkan won the inaugural Best Actress prize from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her performance.[2]
References
- National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Awards for 1975 - LAFCA".
External links
- A Brief Vacation at IMDb
- A Brief Vacation at AllMovie
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