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Reds
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.
1981 · Directed by Warren Beatty · 195 min · Drama · History · Romance · 56 frames
Tagline
Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
Crew
- Written by: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths, Elaine May
- Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
- Edited by: Dede Allen, Craig McKay
- Music: Stephen Sondheim, Dave Grusin
- Production design: Richard Sylbert
- Produced by: Warren Beatty
Cast
- Warren Beatty as John Reed
- Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant
- Edward Herrmann as Max Eastman
- Jerzy Kosiński as Grigory Zinoviev
- Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill
- Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina
- Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman
- Nicolas Coster as Paul Trullinger
- M. Emmet Walsh as Speaker at Liberal Club
- Ian Wolfe as Mr. Partlow
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian
- Studios: JRS Productions, Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance, Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $40,382,659
- Themes: husband wife relationship, world war i, war correspondent, biography, based on true story, co-workers relationship, docudrama, russian revolution (1917), russian history, greenwich village
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