Araya

Film

Araya

7.219591h 30mDocumentary
France · Venezuela
Director
Margot Benacerraf
Year
1959

"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.

Top cast

Directed by

Margot Benacerraf

Written by

Pierre Seghers, Margot Benacerraf

Produced by

Henry Nadler