Modesta

Modesta is a 1956 short film, set in Puerto Rico, in which a peasant woman rebels against her husband's authoritarism. 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 the story by Domingo Silas Ortiz[?]. It was directed by Doniger. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.