Modesta
1956
⏱️ 35 min
📅 Released
🌐 ES
Drama
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.
Crew
Director
Benjamín Doniger
Writer
Domingo Silás Ortiz, René Marqués, Luis A. Maisonet
Producer
Otoniel Vila
Production
Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco