Emilio Gómez Muriel

Redes

A 1936 Mexican fiction film shot on location in Alvarado, Redes depicts fishermen resisting exploitation through collective action. Directed by Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gómez Muriel, written by John Dos Passos, and scored by Silvestre Revueltas, it uses non-professional actors, Paul Strand’s stark cinematography, and a politically grounded script to render poverty as material condition rather than moral allegory. Though its narrative scaffolding is thin, its formal coherence — in image, sound, and rhythm — makes it a singular work of interwar cinematic socialism.