Araya

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Audience Score
70
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NR 1 hr 30 minDocumentary
"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.
StarringJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff
DirectorMargot Benacerraf
WritersPierre SeghersMargot Benacerraf

Movie Details

Original Language:Spanish
Production Companies:Films de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A.
Araya on the Web:Official Website
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