Araya (Film)

Araya is a French- Venezuelan documentary by Margot Benacerraf and Pierre Seghers, which was released in French cinemas in 1959.

Action

The film describes the hard life of privation and salt workers (Spanish: " salineros " ) by Araya, a peninsula in the north- east of Venezuela. The archaic world of the Salineros is the focus of the film by Margot Benacerraf. As these disappeared through the mechanization of salt pans, the film is now regarded as an important historical document.

Classification

While Araya is not a neo-realistic film in the strict sense, but it can be quite in line with Robert J. Flaherty's documentary Man of Aran (1934 ), Luchino Visconti's The Earth Trembles (1948 ) and Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli (1950 ) are mentioned. Nature and man seem to be fateful and inseparable.

Criticism

The lexicon of the International film Araya describes as a " poetic [n ] documentary classics ".

Awards

The film won the Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959. Araya This was the first Latin American movie could ever win an international film award. In the competition for the Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus subject Araya ' later Oscar - crowned Drama Orfeu Negro.

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