A Brief Vacation
Jul 21 1973
•2h 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.
Cast
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Florinda Bolkan
Clara Mataro
Renato Salvatori
Franco Mataro, the husband
Daniel Quenaud
Luigi, Clara's lover
José María Prada
Ciranni
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