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Modesta motion picture - movie film screenshot

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Modesta motion picture - movie film screenshot

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Summary: Modesta (Antonia Hidalgo), a barrio woman, rebels against her husband's (Juan Ortiz Jimenez) authoritarianism. She and other women of her community who suffer the same treatment organize the Liberated Women League to fight for their rights.
Credits: Adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and René Marqués from a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz.

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01/01/1956

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