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Modesta (1956)

Modesta (1956)

Drama
Release Date: 1956, August 28
Directors: Benjamín Doniger
Countries: Puerto Rico
Production: Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco, Divedco
Cast: Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez

Overview:

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.