Modesta

Release Date: 1956-08-28

Runtime: 35

Languages: Español

Rating: 5

Votes: 5

Genres: Drama

Director: Benjamín Doniger

Description: 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 Son...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico

Divedco