A Brief Vacation
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4/4 Roger Ebert Genre Drama, Romance Duration | 7.6/10 IMDb Country Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 9 February 1975 (1975-02-09) (USA) Cast (Clara Mataro), (Franco Mataro, the husband), Daniel Quenaud (Luigi, Clara's lover)Similar movies Related Vittorio De Sica movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finally a brief vacation
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").
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The film concerns a female factory worker from Calabria who falls ill on the job and is prescribed a stay at a mountain retreat. She goes despite her husband's wishes, leaving behind her thankless work shift and her frustrating in-laws, but also her three children. The film addresses issues such as the health care system, labor conditions, spousal satisfaction, and class struggle.
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