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A Brief Vacation   1973         PG, 106 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama Director: Vittorio De Sica   Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, Jose Maria Prada, Adriana Asti, Teresa Gimpera, Anna Carena, Miranda Campa, Hugo Blanco, Angela Cardile   Clara (Florinda Bolkan) has her hands full trying to support her family—children, disabled husband, obnoxious brother-in-law, and senile mother—on the meager wages of a factory worker. Things take a turn for the better when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and enters a sanatorium where her spirits and body are improved. Sadly, it's only a brief vacation before she must return to her former life.