Araya 1959

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"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.

Homepage http://www.arayafilm.com/
Release Date 1959-08-31
Runtime 1h 30m
Directors Margot Benacerraf , Giuseppe Nisoli
Producer Henry Nadler
Writers Margot Benacerraf , Pierre Seghers