Modesta

Modesta

35 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1955

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.

Modesta

35 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1955

Modesta
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Divedco, Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico
Original title Modesta
Directors Benjamín Doniger
Writers Domingo Silás Ortiz, René Marqués, Luis A. Maisonet, Benjamín Doniger

Cast

Antonia Hidalgo

as Modesta

Juan Ortiz Jiménez

as the husband