A Brief Vacation

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.

• Vittorio De SicaDirector
• Cesare ZavattiniWriter
• Rafael J. SalviaWriter

• Florinda BolkanClara Mataro
• Renato SalvatoriFranco Mataro, the husband
• Daniel QuenaudLuigi, Clara's lover
• José María PradaCiranni
• Teresa GimperaGina
• Hugo BlancoThe brother in law
• Julia PeñaEdvige
• Miranda CampaNurse Guidotti
• Angela CardileThe redhead
• Anna CarenaThe mother in law
• Monica GuerritoreMaria
• Maria MizarNurse Garin