Araya

7.0

90m

1959

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.

Starring

José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff

Directed By

Margot Benacerraf