Araya
Release Date:
Aug 31, 1959
Runtime:
1h 30m
Genres:
Documentary
Description
"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.
Director:
Margot Benacerraf
Writer:
Pierre Seghers, Margot Benacerraf
Production:
Films de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A.
