Modesta

Movie
Audience Score
50
Modesta
NR 35 minDrama
Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
StarringAntonia HidalgoJuan Ortiz JiménezBarrio Sonadora Community
DirectorBenjamín Doniger
WritersLuis A. MaisonetRené MarquésBenjamín Doniger

Movie Details

Original Language:Spanish
Production Companies:Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco