Modesta
MovieTitle | Modesta |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Aug 28, 1956 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Benjamín Doniger |
Production country | Puerto Rico |
Production companies | Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco |
Run time | 35 min. |
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.