Araya

Araya

1959 · 90 min · ★ 7.2 · Documentary

"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.

Directed by Margot Benacerraf · Written by Pierre Seghers

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