Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann
Redes
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.
Redes was restored in 2009 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Filmoteca de la UNAM. Restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.
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Cast
- Silvio Hernández del Valle
- Miro
- Antonio Lara
- El Zurdo
- Miguel Figueroa
- Miguel
- Rafael Hinojosa
- Politician
- Felipe Rojas
- Mingo
- David Valle González
- Don Anselmo
- Susana Ortiz Cobos
- Miro’s wife
- And the fishermen and neighbors of Alvarado
Credits
- Director
- Emilio Gómez Muriel
- Director
- Fred Zinnemann
- Producer
- Secretaría de Educatión Pública, Mexico City
- Written by
- Agustin Velásquez Chávez
- Written by
- Paul Strand
- Screenplay
- Henwar Rodakiewicz
- Cinematographer
- Paul Strand
- Production manager
- Agustin Velásquez Chávez
- Production supervisors
- Paul Strand
- Production supervisors
- Hilario Paullada
- Editors
- Gunther von Fritsch
- Editors
- Emilio Gómez Muriel
- Composer
- Silvestre Revueltas
- Sound editor
- Jose Marino
