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Araya

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Release Journey

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Trailers

ARAYA Tráiler de "Araya", de Margot Benacerraf en Ambulante 2012 | Enfoque

Released

Aug 31, 1959

Release date

August 31, 1959

Creator / Director / Author

Margot Benacerraf

Runtime

90 min

Rating

7.2 / 10

Genres

Documentary

Cast

José Ignacio Cabrujas

Narrator (Spanish Version) (voice)

Laurent Terzieff

Narrator (French Version) (voice)

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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