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Reds

Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!

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  • Drama
  • Romance
  • History

Overview

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

Keywords

  • based on true story
  • 1910s
  • world war i
  • 1920s
  • biography
  • husband wife relationship
  • war correspondent
  • co-workers relationship
  • russian revolution (1917)
  • greenwich village
  • political repression
  • government witch hunt
  • american journalist
  • russian history
  • docudrama
  • russian civil war (1918-21)
  • bolshevism
  • soviet union history

Details

Status
Released
Release date
December 25, 1981
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian
Countries
United States of America
Cinematography
Vittorio Storaro
Budget
$35,000,000
Revenue
$40,382,659
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