Movies: Divedco
- 1959
El cacique (1959)
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A dramatization of the way a group of rural people resolve their issues with an authoritarian town leader....
- 1955
Modesta (1955)
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Prize winner, Venice Festival 1956. The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husband...
- 1959
Intolerance (1959)
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A melodramatic romance that tells the story of a community that shuns the arrival of a new neighbor....
- 1961
Milagro en la montaña (1961)
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The film recreates the miracle of the birth of Jesus in a Puerto Rican field. It begins with the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Three Kings....
- 1964
The Jug (1964)
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A cautionary film about what were thought to be rural superstitions and practices in Puerto Rico....
- 1951
Vecinos (1951)
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- 1969
Pueblito de Santiago (1969)
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Adapted from Mexico's "The Forgotten Village". It deals with the fight that develops from the superstitious and ignorant interpretation of a problem and its real, scientific solution....
- 1959
Brainless John (1959)
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A man believes all the advertising he hears....
- 1965
Serenata (1965)
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A couple in love listens to Roque Navarro and his group interpret several romantic melodies....
- 1961
Splendor (1961)
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It tells the story of a slave rebellion on a sugar plantation in the days leading up to the official abolition of slavery on the island on March 22, 1873....
- 1960
Pedro Flores (1960)
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Biographical documentary on the life and work of Pedro Flores, internationally renowned Puerto Rican musician....
- 1965
The Challenge (1965)
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Tells the story about a boy with a mental handicap. It was conceived as teaching tools to inform parents about the issues that they faced when confronted with the health and well-being of their children and of their right to social services....
- 1951
Los peloteros (1951)
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A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league....
- 1958
Parranda campesina (1958)
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The Cordillera de Puerto Rico is presented while Gala Hernández and his group, together with Juaniquillo, perform melodies as part of a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas party....
- 1963
La casa de un amigo (1963)
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The story of a couple who wish to marry, but have no money to build a house. A neighbor recommends that they go by the community asking for cooperation, getting everyone to contribute....
- 1963
La noche de don Manuel (1963)
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A generational conflict is reflected in the old-fashioned ideas of the landowner, who imposes himself as a dominant figure in the political activity of the rural communities of Puerto Rico....
- 1965
Chela (1965)
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It presents the problem of physically disability through a young crippled and the attitudes of the community towards them....
- 1952
Las manos del hombre (1952)
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Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress....
- 1967
La buena herencia (1967)
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Meant to inform rural communities about the legacy of the Taínos, the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borikén, as they called the island....
- 1956
Elisa Tavárez (1956)
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Documentary on Puerto Rican pianist Elisa Tavárez....