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.
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Benjamín Doniger
- Cast: Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez, Barrio Sonadora Community
- Country: Puerto Rico