Modesta (movie)
- User score: 5
- Production country: Puerto Rico
- Producer: Benjamín Doniger
- Production companies: Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1/1/1955
- Run time: 35 min.
Movie 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 Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.
