Reds (1981)

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Written by Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

Directed by Warren Beatty

Also known as "Les Rouges", "Rojos"

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1981

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

This is a three-hour homage to the Bolshevik revolution and tells the true life story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I.

This film begins in 1915 in Portland, Oregon, where Reed (Warren Beatty), budding radical and chronicler of Pancho Villa's Mexican uprising, makes the acquaintance of Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), proto-feminist and aspiring writer.

He and Louise become lovers amid the intellectual ferment of Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachussetts but her affair with the brilliant, melancholy Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson) cleaves them asunder.

Still, inspired by tumultuous events in Russia, they re-team for a mission to Moscow, where they rekindle their ardour and wind up storming the Winter Palace.

Meanwhile, back in the US, Reed composes "Ten Days That Shook the World" while Louise discovers her own formidable voice. But Reed's factional feuds within the American Socialist Party lead him back to Moscow, where disillusion and heartbreak lie in store.

This rather magisterial endeavour won director Warren Beatty the Best Director Oscar in 1982 and the film won two other Oscars.

Cast

Warren BeattyJohn Reed
Diane KeatonLouise Bryant
Edward HerrmannMax Eastman
Jerzy KosinskiGrigory Zinoviev
Image for Jack NicholsonJack NicholsonEugene O'Neill
Image for Paul SorvinoPaul SorvinoLouis Fraina
Maureen StapletonEmma Goldman
Nicolas CosterPaul Trullinger
M. Emmet WalshLiberal Club Speaker
Ian WolfeMr. Partlow
Bessie LoveMrs. Partlow
MacIntyre DixonCarl Walters
Pat StarrHelen Walters
Eleanor D. WilsonMrs. Reed
Max WrightFloyd Dell
George PlimptonHorace Whigham
Harry DitsonMaurice Becker
Leigh CurranIda Rauh
Kathryn GrodyCrystal Eastman
Brenda CurrinMarjorie Jones
Nancy DuiguidJane Heap
Norman ChancerBarney
Dolph SweetBig Bill Haywood
Ramon BieriPolice Chief
Jack O'LearyPinkerton Guard
Image for Gene HackmanGene HackmanPete Van Wherry
Gerald HikenDr. Lorber
William DanielsJulius Gerber
Dave KingAllan Benson
Joseph BuloffJoe Volski
Stefan GryffAlex Gomberg
Denis PekarevInterpreter in Factory
Roger SlomanV.I. Lenin
Stuart RichmanL. Trotsky

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