
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.

as John Reed

as Louise Bryant

as Max Eastman

as Grigory Zinoviev

as Eugene O'Neill

as Louis Fraina

as Emma Goldman

as Paul Trullinger

as Speaker at Liberal Club

as Mr. Partlow

as Mrs. Partlow

as Carl Walters

as Helen Walters

as Mrs. Reed

as Floyd Dell

as Horace Whigham

as Maurice Becker

as Ida Rauh

as Crystal Eastman

as Marjorie Jones

as Jane Heap

as Barney

as Big Bill Haywood

as Police Chief

as Pinkerton Guard

as Pete van Wherry

as Dr. Lorber

as Julius Gerber

as Allan Benson

as Joe Volski

as Alex Gomberg

as Interpreter in Factory

as Vladimir I. Lenin

as Leon Trotsky

as Alexander Kerensky / Himself - Witness

as Young Bolshevik Soldier

as Senator Overman

as MacAlpine

as Harry

as Eddie

as CLP Party Member #1

as CLP Party Member #2

as Government Agent

as State Department Official

as Karl Radek

as Scandinavian Escort

as Finnish Doctor

as Russian Nurse

as Russian Doctor

as Little Boy

as Himself - Witness

as Himself - Witness

as Herself - Witness

as Herself - Witness

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as Himself - Witness

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as Herself - Witness

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as Himself - Witness

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

as Communist Leader (uncredited)

as Louise Bryant's Colleague in France (uncredited)

as Dancing Woman (uncredited)