Salinas

00:00:07 From the sea, a warm wind drifts across the lagoon.

00:00:12 Sun and wind cause the seawater in the artificial ponds to evaporate.

00:00:22 and slack water.

00:00:29 And by evening the ponds are covered by a sparkling blanket of snow:

00:00:32 Salt.

00:00:39 It will last three months.

00:01:04 MUSIC BY HANS LOEPER

00:01:09 FILM EDITING BY URSEL WERTHNER

00:01:22 DIRECTED BY RAIMOND RUEHL

00:01:38 and walk and walk. All day long across salt.

00:01:43 For three months.

00:02:49 It's cooler at night.

00:04:11 Four and a half marks a day...

00:04:16 Extra pay for overtime.

00:04:19 There is no other work.

00:04:26 Piecework.

00:05:26 Now we do it.

00:05:28 It's how we make our living.

00:05:32 We and our families.

00:08:43 There are another 40 ponds full of salt.

00:08:45 That's twelve paydays and twelve weeks of walking.

00:09:18 Every year the lagoons yield 100,000 tons of salt.

00:09:25 It's how we make our living.

00:10:12 Subtitles: submarines, subtitling & translation