Fearless, talented and beautiful Tina Modotti goes to Mexico in the 1920s and becomes a fierce Communist leader along side Diego and Frida, lover to both Edward Weston and Julio Mella, humanitarian to the Mexican poor, and finally, is accused of being a murderer by the Mexican government.

SYNOPSIS:

Modotti explores Tina Modotti's travels to Mexico, her and Edward Weston's photography together and, separately, and their very conflicted relationship. Tina’s membership in the Communist party and her giving up her art, Edward’s subsequent departure from Mexico and Tina’s romance with Julio Mella, a rebel from Cuba, make up the first two thirds of our story.. .Julio is assassinated one evening as they walk home, and she is blamed and incarcerated for his death. Ultimately she is deported from Mexico after being jailed in New Orleans. Although Diego tries to stop her deportation, he cannot. Her life ends in tragedy upon her return to Mexico ten years later. There is a certain mystique about Tina’s affairs and her death but throughout, she is sexual, passionate, generous and unique.

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