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Reds (1981)

Drama | 194 minutes
3,44 157 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 194 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Warren Beatty

Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Edward Herrmann

IMDb score: 7,3 (26.469)

Releasedate: 25 December 1981

Reds plot

"Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!"

John Reed (Warren Beatty) is a left-wing journalist during the First World War. During a speaking engagement, he meets feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), who is married to a boring dentist (Nicolas Coster). Louise leaves her husband and moves with Reed to New York's Greenwich Village, where she finds herself in radical left-wing circles. Despite tensions between them, Reed and Bryant go to Russia together in 1917, just in time to witness the Bolshevik October Revolution there. Back in the United States, Reed hopes to lead a similar revolution there.

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Sir Djuke

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The epic film genre is always good for many awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in particular is always generous with their Oscars when it comes to feature-length films about historical figures or events. 'Ben-Hur', 'Lawrence Of Arabia', 'Patton', 'The Deer Hunter', 'Gandhi', they like that kind of work in America. You can imagine the awkward looks at The Academy when Warren Beatty chose to adapt John Reed's story for his first solo work as a director. This American journalist was sympathetic to the Russian Revolution and the film makes it clear that he could not possibly have chosen any other side than that of the revolutionaries. Difficult to explain in the States, where hatred and phobia of communists are taught at a young age. However, you cannot ignore the epic qualities of 'Reds', beautifully depicted and stripped of false sentiments. It was reluctantly decided to award Beatty the Oscar for best director. The added value is created by interspersing the film with eyewitness accounts of the time of the Russian Revolution by both Americans and Russians, for which Beatty started recording in 1971 (ten years before the release of 'Reds').

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jono

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Reds tells the story of communist journalist John Reed (Wartren Beatty) between roughly 1915 and 1920. Early in the film he meets the free-thinking Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), with whom he begins a relationship. Together they leave for Russia, where they experience the Russian Revolution in 1917. Once back in the United States, Reed hopes to lead a similar revolution, but of course that fails.

The story was regularly interrupted by interviews with eyewitnesses who knew the real John Reed. That bothered me a bit, because it really messed up the pace of the film. As far as I'm concerned, they would have been better off cutting out those interviews and putting them on the DVD as extras. Even though the subject (the rise of communism) does not particularly appeal to me and the film is quite a long one with a length of over three hours, I still enjoyed myself quite a bit. The film won three Oscars in 1981, including best director, and was nominated a total of twelve times. 3.5*

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Film Pegasus (moderator films)

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On paper this is an impressive film with a great cast, but also visually quite worthwhile. And yet this seems like a somewhat forgotten film, despite the 12 Oscar nominations. Probably due to the rather heavy story, which means that the film has all the cards, but it is more of a challenge than ever to keep it going for 3.5 hours. Especially if you have no history. Well done with those witnesses, so that it looks even more like a real testimony.

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