1 Movie Directed by Margot Benacerraf

Araya

Araya

Basic Info:

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Venezuela, France

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (285 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Writer:

Margot Benacerraf

Pierre Seghers

Fullplot:

"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. Margot Benacerraf captures 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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