Araya

(1959)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 33 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1959

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: France, Venezuela

Director: Margot Benacerraf

Cast: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff

Plot

"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.