71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Garofano Rosso / The Red Carnation

Luigi Faccini
Italy
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The story takes place in 1924. Alessio maniardi, an eighteen year-old student lives in a Sicilian city. He falls in love with a companion Giovanna who, as a show of love, gives him a red carnation as a present. The carnation becomes a fundamental object in his life: the fascist studetns see it in his lapel and choose him as a victim. Other studetns, communists, wwant to convert it into a symbol of their group. Always in his search of Giovanna, Alessio feel alone that for him represent violence, friendship, love and politics. 

Director
Luigi Faccini (Italy)
Screenplay
Luigi Faccini, Paquito del Bosco, Piero Anchisi
Plot
Elio Vittorini (novela)
Photography
Arturo Zavattini
Edition
Luciano Benedetti
Sound
Pasquale Rotolo
Running Time
110 m.
Country
Italy
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