Christmas Holidays

Christmas Holidays (1983)

Vacanze di Natale

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.

Date of release
1983-12-22
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (295)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Carlo Vanzina
Collection
Vacanze di Natale Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Vacanze di Natale is a 1983 Italian Christmas comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina.

Production

The movie was shot for only three weeks, in the Fall of 1983. The shooting occurred almost completely in the ski resorts of Faloria and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Critics and even the producers have framed the movie as a direct representation of the status symbols of the time, without any insertions of social criticism, despite the fact that there are some contradictions between social ambitions of the characters in the movie. The increased well-being of the Italian society in the 1980s is represented by the high- end vacation spots chosen for shooting.

One can note the differences between the quality of the villa inhabited by the Covelli family and the five star hotel where some protagonists are guests (Guido Nicheli, Stefania Sandrelli, and others) and, on the other side, the 3 star hotel (Hotel Fanes, closed since 2002), where the Marchetti family are guests.

On the other hand the common areas of the VIP Club where Jerry Calà plays the piano, or the central Corso Italia, symbolize the tentaqtive of social ramping and the apparent equalization of the characters, due to the crossing of interests and passions.,

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