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Which Mexican community was portrayed in Fred Zinnemann’s first directing project, Redes?
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(From left to right) Marlon Brando, Fred Zinnemann, and Montgomery Clift on the set of From Here to Eternity (1953).
Fred Zinnemann’s directorial debut, Redes (1936)—also known as The Wave—portrayed the lives of a Mexican fishing community.
The film, which Zinnemann codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel, is noted for its neorealist style and was developed under the guidance of photographer Paul Strand.1