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

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.

Franco Nero

(John Reed)

Anatoly Ustyzhaninov

(Vladimir Lenin)

Sydne Rome

(Louise Bryant)

Bohdan Stupka

(Alexander Kerensky)

Valeriy Barinov

(Nikolai Podvoisky)

Irina Skobtseva

(Countess Panina)

Olegar Fedoro

(Colonel Polkovnikov)

Boris Belyakov

(Nikitin)

Liliya Gurova

(conductor)

Nikolai Boyarsky

(General)

Yuriy Sokolov

(Eremeev - newspaper employee)

Sergey Dorogov

(Red Army soldier)

Aleksey Emelyanov

(engineer (uncredited))

Elena Finogeeva

(Alexandra Kollontai)

Yulyen Balmusov

(Felix Dzerzhinsky)

Boris Nevzorov

(Konstantin Eremeev)

Mirdza Martinsone

(Bessie Beatty)

Nikolay Burov

(Mikhail Tereshchenko)

Yaroslav Baryshev

(Grigory Zinoviev)

Vladimir Sedov

(Nikolai Kishkin)

Vyacheslav Butenko

(Leon Trotsky)

Yuriy Nikolaev

Aleksandr Sayko

(Antonov-Ovseyenko)

Pyotr Vorobyov

(Albert)

Tengiz Daushvili

(Joseph Stalin)

Daniil Dombrovsky

(Yakov Sverdlov)

Galiks Kolchitskiy

(industrialist)

Janis Kluss

(Eino Rahja)

Larisa Barabanova

(Krupskaya)

Viktor Chebotaryov

(soldier-scooter)

Veleriy Zakharyev

(Panin)

Viktor Kremlev

(soldier)

Nikolay Volkov

(soldier)

Yuri Lazarev

(colonel)

Yanis Yakobson

(sailor)

Viktor Kraslavskiy

Boris Kardashenko

Alexander Vdovin

(sailor)

Rodion Aleksandrov

(Anatoliy Lunacharskiy)

Igor Bogolyubov

(Trofim)

Sergey Bondarchuk

Stanislav Borodokin

(Blagonravov)

Martins Verdins

(Nikolai Erickson)

Mikhail Vasilyev

(senior officer)

Vladimir Vyazovik

(sailor Zakharov)

Yuri Golubtsov

Igor Dobryakov

(Kerensky's adjutant)

Grigori Dunayev

(soldier)

Lev Durov

(Schrader)

Aleksandr Ivanov

(Artsibashev)

Vadim Ivanov

(staff captain)

Igor Ivanov

(Red Guard Sviridov)

Mikhail Kalinkin

Olga Kirsanova-Miropolskaya

(revolutionary)

Vyacheslav Klimov

Pavel Kornakov

Aleksandr Lebedev

(soldier)

Galina Levchenko

(stenographer)

Vladimir Lyod

(sailor)

Valeriy Lushchevskiy

(printing worker)

Viktor Mamayev

Yevgeniy Markov

(minister)

Raisa Migunova

Pshizabi Misostishhov

(Bagratuni)

Georges Nowicki

Stepan Oleksenko

(official)

Mikhail Rozanov

(sailor)

Nikolay Ryabkov

Vladimir Firsov

(Smirnov)

Aleksandr Chuykov

(Guchkov)

Ada Sheremetyeva

(Anna Elizarova-Ulyanova)

Oleg Stefan

Vladimir Erenberg

Gleb Plaksin

Boris Bachurin

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Georgi Tatonov