O Cravo Vermelho

This film was based on the novel of the same name by writer Elio Vittorini, well known also for his highly praised "Conversation in Sicily." The film version of "The Red Carnation" has all of the substance and surface of the novel...the tentative youthful longings, the charged political background as Fascism in Italy of 1924 forces everyone, youth included, to examine their ideals and to make choices.