Modesta (1956)
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.
- Country : Puerto Rico
- Genre : Drama
- Studio : Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco
- Director : Benjamín Doniger
- Cast : Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez, Barrio Sonadora Community