Araya

Name: Araya
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.2

1959 · 90 min

Documentary

★ 7.2

Criterion

Trailer

"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.

Crew

Director Margot Benacerraf
Writer Pierre Seghers
Writer Margot Benacerraf
Director of Photography Giuseppe Nisoli

Cast

José Ignacio Cabrujas
Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)
Laurent Terzieff
Narrator (French Version) (voice)

Crew

Director — Margot Benacerraf
Writer — Pierre Seghers
Writer — Margot Benacerraf
Director of Photography — Giuseppe Nisoli

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Intermission

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