Reds
Summary:
Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin). The film is an effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on screen in a series of unsubtle and prejudicial broad strokes. The film begins in 1915,... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Warren Beatty - (John Reed)
Diane Keaton - (Louise Bryant)
Edward Herrmann - (Max Eastman)
Jerzy Kosinski - (Grigory Zinoviev)
Jack Nicholson - (Eugene O'Neill)
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Review:
An achievement in epic storytelling and historical romance, Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) combines American Communist John Reed's experience of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath with the intimate relationship between Reed and Louise Bryant, his match in progressive thinking. Structured through the reminiscences of two dozen actu... Continue >>
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