An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Keywords:
Husband wife relationship
World war i
War correspondent
Biography
Based on true story
Co-workers relationship
Docudrama
Russian revolution (1917)
Russian history
Greenwich village
Russian civil war (1918-21)
1920s
1910s
Political repression
Government witch hunt
Bolshevism
Soviet union history
American journalist
Movie tag line: "Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!"
Character: John Reed
Character: Louise Bryant
Character: Max Eastman
Character: Grigory Zinoviev
Character: Eugene O'Neill