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

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

1982 · 139 min · ★ 4.5 · Drama, History, Western

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.

Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk · Written by Antonio Saguera

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