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.
Based on J. Reed's book "Mexico Rising". The first part of the dilogy is devoted to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. These events are shown through the eyes of American journalist John Reed.
