A Brief Vacation

Una breve vacanza
Italian theatrical release poster
Italian	Una breve vacanza
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Written by	Cesare Zavattini
Produced by	Arthur Cohn
Starring	Florinda Bolkan Renato Salvatori Daniel Quenaud José María Prada Adriana Asti
Cinematography	Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by	Franco Arcalli
Music by	Manuel De Sica
Production companies	Verona Produzione Azor Films
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation
Release dates	21 July 1973 (1973-07-21) (Taormina) 7 September 1973 (1973-09-07) (Italy) 2 June 1975 (1975-06-02) (Spain)
Running time	106 minutes
Countries	Italy Spain
Language	Italian

A Brief Vacation (Italian: Una breve vacanza) is a 1973 melodrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor").