What is "redes"

Redes may refer to:

• Redes Natural Park
• Redes (film), a 1936 Mexican film about a fishing community
• Redes (Revueltas), the score of the 1936 Mexican film

• , a popular science program on Spanish TV presented by Eduard Punset

Redes is a Mexican film, released in 1936, about the fishing community of Alvarado on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, near the city of Veracruz. Although the Spanish language title refers to (fishing) nets, the English language title is The Wave (apparently referring to imagery at the end of the film). Redes was made with a mainly non-professional cast and has been seen as anticipating Italian neorealism. It concerns the struggle of poor fishermen to overcome exploitation.

Redes is a film score by the Mexican Composer Silvestre Revueltas for the film of the same name. It was his first film score, begun in 1934, when he visited the film crew on location in Alvarado. The film concerns the efforts of exploited fishermen to unite. Redes means "nets" in Spanish. The directors were Fred Zinneman and Emilio Gomez Muriel.

One contemporary newspaper review regarded this score to possess "many of the qualities characteristic of Revueltas's art". Revueltas arranged a concert version which he premiered in 1936, the same year as the film was released. However, in concert performance the music is usually heard in an arrangement by Erich Kleiber, made in the 1940s after the composer's death. Kleiber's version is in two parts and lasts about 16 minutes.

• Part I
  • The Fisherman
  • The Child’s Funeral
  • Setting Out to Fish
• Part II
  • The Fight
  • The Return of the Fishermen with Their Dead Friend