Film
Araya
1959 · 1h 30m · Documentary
- IMDb
- 7.6
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 89%
- Metacritic
- 73
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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.
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Cast
José Ignacio Cabrujas
Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)
Laurent Terzieff
Narrator (French Version) (voice)
Crew
- Margot Benacerraf Director · Writer
- Pierre SeghersWriter
- Henry NadlerProducer
- Giuseppe NisoliDirector of Photography
- Guy BernardOriginal Music Composer
- Pierre JallaudEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- August 31, 1959
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
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