Release Date

31 Aug, 1959

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

"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.

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Actors

José Ignacio Cabrujas

Laurent Terzieff

Crew

Margot Benacerraf

Guy Bernard

Henry Nadler

Giuseppe Nisoli

Pierre Jallaud

Pierre Seghers

Margot Benacerraf