Portuguese Vacation (Vacances portugaises)

Portuguese Vacation (original title: Vacances portugaises) is a 1963 French-Portuguese co-production drama directed by Pierre Kast. Written by Alain Aptekman, Robert Scipion and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, the film builds its story around a holiday spent in Portugal, as its title suggests, and is performed in French.

The picture is led by Françoise Arnoul, Michel Auclair and Jean-Pierre Aumont, and it brings together a notably large ensemble of well-known performers of the period. The cast also features Jean-Marc Bory, Françoise Brion, Daniel Gélin, Barbara Laage and Pierre Vaneck, alongside a young Catherine Deneuve, who was then only at the beginning of her screen career. Released in Portugal in February 1964, the film stands as one of the more prominent French co-productions of its era thanks to this crowded roster of familiar faces.