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Modesta

Modesta

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.

Release DateAugust 28, 1956
StatusReleased
Original TitleModesta
Runtime 35min
Budget
Revenue
LanguageSpanish
Original LanguageSpanish
Production CountriesPuerto Rico
Production CompaniesFilm Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto RicoDivedco