Modesta

Modesta

0h 35m 1956 Drama Puerto Rico
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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.

Director

Benjamín Doniger

Writer

Domingo Silás Ortiz, René Marqués, Luis A. Maisonet, Benjamín Doniger