Araya
1959 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 886 VOTES · DIR. Margot Benacerraf
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 559 lines
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00:01:17 On this land nothing grew.
00:05:33 with materials brought from so far away
00:07:12 and this breaking dawn.
00:09:19 Their gestures always identical, ritualistic, exacting.
00:10:57 endlessly turning over.
00:13:34 César and Toñico wash the salt
00:16:05 Benito and his arduous daily task.
00:18:32 all come from the village of El Rincón.
00:20:26 And the same waiting, hoping, begins anew
00:22:53 For 40 years
00:25:27 to scoop, to stitch, to weigh.
00:28:20 salt was as precious as gold.
00:31:11 And again, they will rediscover the daily brotherhood
00:33:45 She will spend all morning
00:36:30 And again, the women’s songs are heard in the white washed glare.
00:38:43 The money from the salt pays for Isabel's fish.
00:41:25 that the "múcuras" are molded.
00:45:54 the tears...
00:53:26 the sun, the heat
00:58:17 Now she is chopping wood.
01:02:26 the simplest words
01:07:42 comes from the Sea.
01:13:44 Watching her children sleep
01:18:48 Is this the end of the round of the salt?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed559
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:01:17
Final line01:18:48
Production Record
DirectorMargot Benacerraf
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes886