Modesta

Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Director: Benjam&iacute;n Doniger
Cast: Antonia Hidalgo, &nbsp; Juan Ortiz Jim&eacute;nez, &nbsp; Barrio Sonadora Community,

Modesta at SFlix. 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.