Araya
MovieTitle | Araya |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Aug 31, 1959 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Margot Benacerraf |
Production country | France, Venezuela |
Production companies | Films de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A. |
Run time | 90 min. |
"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.