Modesta (1955) - Double Feature

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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.


Main Cast: Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez, Barrio Sonadora Community

Director: Benjamín Doniger

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

Editor: Paul Falkenberg

Cinematographer: Luis A. Maisonet


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