

Film
Araya
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




















