Red Bells

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| name = Red Bells

| image = Red Bells.jpg

| director = Sergei Bondarchuk

| writer = Sergei Bondarchuk
Valentin Yezhov
Ricardo Garibay
Carlos Ortiz Tejeda

| starring = Franco Nero
Ursula Andress

| music = Jorge Eras

| cinematography = Vadim Yusov

| editing = Mario Morra

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| released = {{Film date|1982}}

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| country = Soviet Union
Italy
Mexico

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Red Bells (also known as Mexico in Flames, Insurgent Mexico and Red Bells Part I – Mexico on Fire) is a 1982 adventure-drama film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. It was coproduced by Soviet Union (where it was released as Krasnye kolokola, film pervyy – Meksika v ogne), Italy (where is known as Messico in fiamme) and Mexico (where its title is Campanas rojas). It is the first of a two-part film centered on the life and career of John Reed, the revolutionary communist journalist that had already inspired Warren Beatty's Reds.{{cite book|title=Variety's Film Reviews: 1981–1982|publisher=Bowker, 1983|page=34}} This chapter focuses on Reed's reportage about the 1915 Mexican revolution.{{cite news|last=Dale Pollock|title=Soviets Counter Reds With Reed Films|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V5BTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5322,4299368&dq=franco+nero+sydne+rome+red+bells&hl=en|accessdate=2 August 2012|newspaper=The Bulletin|date=January 22, 1982}} It was followed by Red Bells II.