Araya
Not Rated
Documentary
Starring: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Writer: Pierre Seghers, Margot Benacerraf
Release Date:
August 31, 1959
August 31, 1959
Ratings:
7.0 / 10
7.0 / 10
Director:
Margot Benacerraf
Margot Benacerraf
Companies:
Films de l'Archer
Films de l'Archer
Overview
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
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