Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World 1982

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

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The cast

Franco Nero John Reed

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Anatoly Ustyzhaninov Vladimir Lenin

Sydne Rome Louise Bryant

Bohdan Stupka Alexander Kerensky

Valeriy Barinov Nikolai Podvoisky

Irina Skobtseva Countess Panina

Olegar Fedoro Colonel Polkovnikov

Boris Belyakov Nikitin

Liliya Gurova conductor

Nikolai Boyarsky General

Yuriy Sokolov Eremeev - newspaper employee

Sergey Dorogov Red Army soldier

Aleksey Emelyanov engineer (uncredited)

Elena Finogeeva Alexandra Kollontai

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