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A Brief Vacation

A Brief Vacation

Actor(s): Florinda Bolkan
Director(s): Vittorio De Sica
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Movie Details

Content Advisory: Questionable for Children
Movie Release: 1973
DVD Release: 12/16/2003
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio Tracks: Italian
Subtitles: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 52 mins
Studio: Homevision
Members Wishing: 5
Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Melodrama

DVD Synopsis

Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan 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. A Brief Vacation was scripted by the prolific Cesar Zavattini, who like De Sica had once been a guiding force in the Italian neorealist movement. Though not De Sica's final film, A Brief Vacation was the last of the director's work to be released in America. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Florinda Bolkan - Clara


Editorial Review of DVD

This superb neo-realist drama from filmmaker Vittorio De Sica gets a simple, but respectful, presentation for its release on DVD. Una Breve Vacanza (aka A Brief Vacation) has been given a letterboxed transfer to disc at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.66:1 and the audio is mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The audio is in Italian and the disc includes optional English language subtitles. As a bonus, the disc also includes excerpts from De Sica's Sette Volte Donna (aka Woman Times Seven). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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