Modesta

08/28/1956

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0hr 35min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Antonia Hidalgo
  • Juan Ortiz Jiménez
  • Barrio Sonadora Community

    Directors

  • Luis A. Maisonet
  • Benjamín Doniger

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

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

    Production Countries

  • Puerto Rico

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish