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.

Details

Genres

Documentary

Language

ES

Release Date

1959-08-31

Runtime

90 min

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Cast

José Ignacio Cabrujas

Laurent Terzieff