MEXICO IN FLAMES

Krasnye kolokola, film pervyy - Meksika v ogne – Russian title

Krasnye kolokola – Russian title

Messico in fiamme – Italian title

Campanas rojas (primera parte) – Mexican title

Rude zvony – Czechoslovakian title

Meksiko liekeissä – Finnish title

Punaiset kellot I osa Meksiko tulessa – Finnish title

10 Tage, die die Welt erschütterten – German title

Mexikó lángokban – Hungarian title

Czerwone dzwony – Meksyk w ogniu – Polish title

La decada que extremeció al mund – Spanish title

Meksiko liekeissa – Swedish title

Mexico i flammor – Swedish title

Meksika alevler içinde– Turkish title

Insurgent Mexico – English title

Red Bells Part I - Mexico on Fire – English title

Red Bells – English title

Mexico in Flames – English title

A 1981 Russian, Italian, Mexican co-production [Mosfilm (Moscow), Vides International (Rome), Conacitez (Mexico City)]

Producers: Constantin Stekine, Pablo Buelna

Director: Sergei Bonbdarchuk (Sergei Bondradchuk)

Story: “Insurgent Mexico” by John Reed

Screenplay: Sergei Bonbdarchuk (Sergei Bondradchuk), V. Ezhov (Valentin Ezhov), Ricardo Garibay, Carlo Ortiz Tejeda

Cinematography: Vadim Yusov [color]

Music: Jorge Eras (Joaquin Heras)

Running time: 135 minutes

Cast:

John Reed – Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero)

Mabel Douglas – Ursula Andress

Emiliano Zapata – Jorge Luke

Soldadrea – Blanca Guerra (Blanca Islas)

Longino – Jorge Reynoso

Pancho Villa – Heraclio Zepeda

General Urbina – Alfredo Gutierrez

Amador – Humberto Elizondo

Proculo – Carlos Cardan (Carlos Figueroa)

Newspaper reporters – Roger Cudney, Paco Pharrez (Francisco Pharrez)

Newspaper executive – George Belanger (Jorge Belanger)

Urbina officers – Honorato Magaloni, Mario Arevalo

Fidencio – Armando Duarte (Armando Osorio)

Red Guard Sviridov – Igor Ivanov

Villista soldier – Roberto Ruy

Wagon driver – Jorge Noble (Xorge Noble)

With: Erika Carlson (Erika Carlsson), Trinidad Esclava, Vytautas  Tomkus, Guadalupe Pineda, Martin LaSalle, Salvador Jarquin, Maria de Lourdes Salinas, Jacqueline Evans (Grace Antibus), Roberto Sclosser

This is the first in a two-part film epic covering the journalist John Reed’s life. Reed and his rich patron and lover Mabel Douglas carry on a torrid romance as he covers labor riots and revolutions during the years 1910 to 1915. Most of the film takes place in Mexico, where Reed chronicles that nation's revolution derived from his experience alongside Pancho Villa. We see long gallops, picturesque and ragged crowd scene, sombreros, bandoleros, bivouacs, and battles with the government. All these stories are interwoven in "flashback" showing moments in the life of John Reed from his first meeting with Mabel Dodge where she hires Reeds to be a fashion writer, up to the realization that led him to Mexico and the first 20th century revolution.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1b8Om7rJ98