This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with “witnesses”, the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.

Reds (1981)
  • Rating: (10,104 votes)
  • Tagline:Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it! »
  • Runtime:194 minutes
  • Director: Warren Beatty
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    John Reed
    Warren Beatty
    Louise Bryant
    Diane Keaton
    Max Eastman
    Edward Herrmann
    Grigory Zinoviev
    Jerzy Kosinski
    Eugene O'Neill
    Jack Nicholson
    Louis Fraina
    Paul Sorvino
    Emma Goldman
    Maureen Stapleton
    Paul Trullinger
    Nicolas Coster
    Speaker - Liberal Club
    M. Emmet Walsh
    Mr. Partlow
    Ian Wolfe
  • Genres:Biography, Drama, History, Romance
  • Producers:
    Dede Allen
    executive producer  
    Warren Beatty
    producer  
    David Leigh MacLeod
    associate producer (as David L. MacLeod) 
    Simon Relph
    executive producer  
  • Plot: This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie. Written by Reid Gagle
Reds
  • User's comment:A great companion piece to 1965's 'Doctor Zhivago'. by Walter Frith

    Warren Beatty's 'Reds' is a terrific film that is not only great story telling in the conventional Hollywood way but also has an original style of narration told in many ways from the point of view of witnesses to the real story who lived during the days the film is centred around.

    The film is especially significant to view since the iron curtain in Russia has come down and 'Reds' is a movie that never looks dated and stresses the fact that morals at the early part of the 20th century were about the same as they are now. It's just that no one discussed it back then and it emphasizes that times change but people don't.

    With top notch performances from the entire cast, it is one of the few films to be nominated for an Oscar in all four acting categories and was victorious in the Best Supporting Actress category for Maureen Stapleton although the film's best performance comes from Diane Keaton who should have won her second Oscar.

    To date, Beatty is the only film maker to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, Actor, Screenwriter and Producer twice for the same film. The other time was for 1978's 'Heaven Can Wait'.


  • Quotes: Emma Goldman: I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain. Eugene O'Neill: I'd like to kill you, but I can't. So you can do whatever you want to. Except not see me. Eugene O'Neill: If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.
  • Also known as: Reds (Argentina), Reds (Austria), Reds (France - imdb display title), Reds (Portugal - imdb display title), Reds (West Germany), Adoomim (Israel - Hebrew title), Crveni (Serbia - imdb display title), Czerwoni (Poland), John Reed: The Ten Days That Shook the World (USA - working title), Krasnye (Russia), Les rouges (Canada - French title), Oi kokkinoi (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Punaiset (Finland), Reds: The John Reed Story (USA - working title), Rojos (Spain), Vörösök (Hungary),

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