Reds is a Film of 1981 putting in the high-speed motorboat Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. It turns around the life of John Reed, the militant Communiste, journalist, and writer who made the chronicle of the Russian Révolution of 1917 and of sound Ten days which shook the world (Ten Days that Shook the World) .

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Distribution: Paramount Pictures December 4th, 1981, the USA 194 minutes Budget: 35.000.000$ USD

At the side of Beatty and Keaton, movie stars Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosiński, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster and Mr. Emmet Walsh. Adapted by Warren Beatty, Peter S. Feibleman (not-credited), Trevor Griffiths, Elaine May (not-credited) and Jeremy Pikser of the memories of Reed. Realized by Beatty.

Warren Beatty received the Oscar of the best realizer for film. It was also lists some for the Oscar of the best film, but lost with the profit of the film the carriages of fire (Carriages off Fire).

Historical characters

• John Silas Reed - (interprets by Warren Beatty)

• Louise Bryant - (interprets by Diane Keaton)
• max Eastman - (interprets by Edward Herrmann)
• Grigory Zinoviev - (interprets by Jerzy Kosiński)
• Eugene O' Neill - (interprets by Jack Nicholson)
• Emma Goldman - (interprets by Maureen Stapleton)

The witnesses (The Witnesses)

Alphabetically:

• Jacob Bailin

• Roger Nash Baldwin - (foundator of ACLU)
• John Ballato
• Harry Carlisle
• Kenneth Chamberlain
• Andrew Dasburg
• Tess Davis
• Isaac Gift Levine
• Will Lasting - (Philosopher, historian, and writer)
• White Hays Fagen
• Hamilton Fish III - (Congressman)
• Dorothy Frooks - (Auteure, editor, military figure and actress)
• Hugo Gellert - (Illustrator and satirist)
• Adele Gutman Nathan
• Emmanuel Herbert
• George Jessel - (Actor, singer, lyric writer, and producer)
• Henry Miller - (Writer)
• Arthur Mayer
• Scott Nearing - (Preserving, pacifist, educational and writer)
• Gilded Russell - (Feminist and militant progressist)
• George Seldes - (Journalist and critical)
• Art Shields
• Jessica Smith - (Editor and activist)
• Adela Rogers St Johns - (Journalist, novel, and scenario writer)
• Arne Swabeck - (American communist Chief)
• Bernadine Szold-Fritz
• Galina von Meck
• Will Weinstone
• Rebecca West - (Feminist and écrivaine)
• Lucita Williams

Reward

The film gained three Oscar S for:

• Better realizer (Warren Beatty)
• Better actress in a supporting role (Maureen Stapleton which incarnates Emma Goldman)
• Better photography (Vittorio Storaro)

and was in nomination for:

• Better film
• Better actor (Warren Beatty)
• Better actress (Diane Keaton)
• Better actor in a supporting role (Jack Nicholson)

• Better artistic director

• Better creation of costumes
• Better assembly
• Better sound
• Better original screenplay.

Trivia

• Until now, it is the last film to have been nominated with the Oscars in the four categories of actors. No film since 1982 made a success of this exploit.

• Warren Beatty began turning from interviews with the " témoins" (the " witnesses") as of the beginning of the year 1970.

• Gene Hackman played the small role of Pete Van Wherry voluntarily. The scene in which this one announces in Jack Reed that Louise Bryant does not work any more for him took 100 catches exactly. Hackman refused to make a 101e taken.

• Jerzy Kosiński incarnated the role of the revolutionist Bolchevique and member of the Politburo, Grigory Zinoviev. A critic of the Time magazine wrote about it: " Ace Reed' S Soviet nemesis, novelist Jerzy Kosiński receipts himself nicely--has will tundra off ice against Reed' S alAmerican fire." Newsweek complimented Kosinski' S " delightfully abrasive performance."

• the film was not available in DVD before 2006.

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