Claim: Ruy de Carvalho had four selected films from 1990-2000, and his first selected film was entitled, No, or the Vain Glory of Command (a film that depicts a series of defeats from the entire military history of Portugal), and his latest selected film was entitled, April Captains(a film telling the story of the Carnation Revolution).
Evidence: 1990 1993 No, or the Vain Glory of Command Abraham's Valley 1994 A Caixa 2000 April Captains The film, starring Luís Miguel Cintra and Miguel Guilherme, depicts a series of defeats from the entire military history of Portugal – the assassination of Viriathus, the Battle of Toro, the failed attempt of Iberian Union under Afonso of Portugal and Isabella of Spain and the Battle of Alcácer Quibir – and the Lusiads episode of the Island of love, which are told through flashbacks as a professorish Portuguese lieutenant recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African overseas territory in 1974, during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–74). April Captains (Portuguese: Capitães de Abril) is a 2000 film telling the story of the Carnation Revolution, the military coup that overthrew the fascist dictatorship (known as the Estado Novo) in Portugal on 25 April 1974.