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Araya (1959)

Araya (1959)

Documentary
Release Date: 1959, August 31
Directors: Margot Benacerraf
Countries: France, Venezuela
Production: Films de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A.
Cast: Laurent Terzieff

Overview:

"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.

Keywords:

woman director