Modesta (1955)
35m
Running Time
January 1, 1955Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Antonia Hidalgo
Modesta
Juan Ortiz Jiménez
the husband
Barrio Sonadora Community
Paul Falkenberg
Editor
Domingo Silás Ortiz
Story
René Marqués
Writer
Otoniel Vila
Producer
Héctor Campos Parsi
Music
Details.
Wiki.
Modesta is a 1956 short film, set in Puerto Rico, in which a peasant woman rebels against her husband's authoritarianism. She and the other women of her community organize the Liberated Women League to fight for their rights. It stars Antonia Hidalgo and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.
The movie was adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and René Marqués from a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It was directed by Doniger. In 1998, Modesta was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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