Araya

Name: Araya
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 hr 30 min
Rating: 70
Cast: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff

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StarringJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff

DirectorMargot Benacerraf

WritersPierre Seghers

NR 1 hr 30 minDocumentary

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.

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