Modesta

Modesta

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 28, 1956

Runtime

0h 35m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Modesta

Production Companies

Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco

Director

Benjamín Doniger

Description

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.