''Modesta'' is a 1956 short
film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
, 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".
External links
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1956 films
United States National Film Registry films
Labor rights
Labor in Puerto Rico
American black-and-white films
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