Modesta: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Original format: Film, video
• Medium: Film, Video
• Genre: Fiction films
• Language: Spanish
• Collection: Archivo General De Puerto Rico Collection (Library Of Congress)
• Repository: Motion Picture, Broadcasting And Recorded Sound Division
• Call number: Mavis identifier: 45468
• Catalogue date: 1956
• Catalogue subjects: Fiction films
• Named contributors: Puerto Rico. Division de Educacion de la Comunidad; Doniger, Benjamin

Catalogue notes

• Credits: Adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and René Marqués from a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz.
• 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.

Sources and reuse

This guide reorganizes bibliographic facts and catalogue descriptions from the Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse data package, a published snapshot documented in 2024. The original item record identifies the source material. Audio, films, scores and full-text works are linked through the original record rather than reproduced here.