Red Bells: Mexico on Fire, Episode 1 (4K, drama, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 1982)

The film's restoration was completed by specialists from the Mosfilm Film Concern's Telecinema and Computer Graphics department. Based on the works of D. Reed, "Mexico Rebellious" and "10 Days That Shook the World." A film dilogy about two revolutions that took place on different continents: "Mexico Burning," about the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 led by Pancho Villa and Zapata; and "I Saw the Birth of a New World," about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Reed, a native of a wealthy bourgeois background, leaves everything behind in 1913 and becomes a correspondent in Mexico, engulfed in popular revolution, sharing the hardships of the people's struggle with the Mexican peasants. Striving to be objective, Reed renounced his military service, but later felt he could no longer remain a journalist. And when his fellow rebels offer him the rifle of a dead comrade, Reed accepts it. The second film in the duology, "I Saw the Birth of a New World," features Lenin, Sverdlov, Podvoisky, Antonov-Ovseenko, and other historical figures John Reed met. The American writer's impressions are complemented by a historical reconstruction of events from Lenin's arrival in April 1917 to the storming of the Winter Palace and the proclamation of the Decree on Peace at the 11th Congress of Soviets.