Modesta 1955

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Drama

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.

Release Date 1955-01-01
Runtime 35m
Directors Luis A. Maisonet, Benjamín Doniger
Producer Otoniel Vila
Writers Luis A. Maisonet, René Marqués, Domingo Silás Ortiz, Benjamín Doniger