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Modesta

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Puerto Rico · 1955
35m
Director Benjamín Doniger
Starring Antonia Hidalgo, Juan Ortiz Jiménez, Barrio Sonadora Community
Genre Drama

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.

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