Modesta

*5.8

Status

Released

Production

Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico

Aired

1956-08-28

Modesta

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.