Modesta 1956
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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.
- Released: 1956-08-28
- Runtime: 35 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez, Barrio Sonadora Community
- Director: Paul Falkenberg, Domingo Silás Ortiz, René Marqués, Otoniel Vila, Héctor Campos Parsi
