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Modesta
Sign in to savethumb|Modesta Modesta is a 1956 short film that stars Antonia Hidalgo and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.
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5.8The 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.
Cast
- Antonia Hidalgo as Modesta
- Juan Ortiz Jiménez as the husband
- Barrio Sonadora Community
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- Duration
- 35
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- publication date
- 1956-01-01
- title
- Modesta
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thumb|Modesta Modesta is a 1956 short film that stars Antonia Hidalgo and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.
==Plot== A feminist manifesto 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.