A Brief Vacation

1973 | 112 minutes | 5.8 ★ (14)

A Brief Vacation
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    21 July 1973

  • DirectingVittorio De Sica
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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