Araya

"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.

Country:

France,

Venezuela

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

1959

Director:

Margot Benacerraf

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Company:

Films de l'Archer,

Caroni Films C.A.

Cast:

Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)

Narrator (French Version) (voice)

Crew:

Director

Writer

Writer

Editor

Producer