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'Modesta' is a 1956 short film, 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 Jimnez.

The movie was adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and Ren Marqus 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".


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