Modesta (1955)

Run Time: 0h35m | Release: 01 Jan 1955

Genres: Drama |

Production Countries: Puerto Rico

5 / 105 Vote Count

Overview:

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.