Summary
"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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Critics and audiences agree
Critics 83Audiences 82GoodWatch 73
Tomatometer92%
Metascore73
Audience score92%
Letterboxd · 4 K ratings4.0/5
IMDb7.6
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
1959
August 31, 1959
67 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Spanish
Original language
Made in
France
Venezuela
Directing · 1
- Margot Benacerraf Director, Writer
Writing · 1
- Pierre Seghers Writer
Production · 1
- Henry Nadler Producer
Camera · 1
- Giuseppe Nisoli Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Pierre Jallaud Editor
Sound · 1
- Guy Bernard Original Music Composer
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