Araya
1959•1h 30m•7.2•Released
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.
Director
Margot Benacerraf
Writer
Pierre Seghers, Margot Benacerraf
Languages
Spanish
Studio
Films de l'Archer
Cast
José Ignacio Cabrujas
Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)
Laurent Terzieff
Narrator (French Version) (voice)
Production
Company
Films de l'Archer
Company
Caroni Films C.A.
Producer
Henry Nadler
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