Film
Modesta
Puerto Rico- Director
- Benjamín Doniger
- Year
- 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.
Top cast
Directed by
Benjamín Doniger
Written by
Luis A. Maisonet, Domingo Silás Ortiz, René Marqués, Benjamín Doniger
Produced by
Otoniel Vila