1936 | Mexico | Fiction

Redes

  • Spanish English 59 mins
  • Director | Emilio Gómez Muriel
  • Writer | Agustin Velásquez Chávez, Paul Strand, Henwar Rodakiewicz
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Early in his career, the Austrian-born future Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel the politically and emotionally searing Redes. In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real- life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers. A singular coming together of talents, Redes, commissioned by a progressive Mexican government, was cowritten and gorgeously shot by the legendary photographer Paul Strand.

Exploitation Solidarity Labor Poverty Resistance
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The Criterion Collection
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