Araya

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TitleAraya
User score

7

Release dateAug 31, 1959
GenreDocumentary
DirectorMargot Benacerraf
Production countryFrance, Venezuela
Production companiesFilms de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A.
Run time90 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.

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