Araya (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Araya |
| Original title | Araya |
| Country of production | France , Venezuela |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Margot Benacerraf |
| script | Pierre Seghers |
| production | Henry Nadler |
| music | Guy Bernard |
| camera | Giuseppe Nisoli |
| cut | Pierre Jalluad |
| occupation | |
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Araya is a French - Venezuelan documentary directed by Margot Benacerraf and Pierre Seghers and released in French cinemas in 1959.
action
The film describes the hard and hard life of the salt works (Spanish: "salineros") of Araya, a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. The archaic world of the Salineros is the focus of Margot Benacerraf's film. Since this disappeared through the mechanization of the salt pans, the film is now also an important testimony to the times.
classification
Araya is not a neo-realistic film in the strict sense of the word, but it can certainly be mentioned in a series with Robert J. Flaherty's documentary Man of Aran (1934), Luchino Visconti's Die Erde quebbe (1948) or Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli (1950). Nature and man seem to be fateful and inseparable.
criticism
The lexicon of international film describes Araya as a "poetic documentary classic".
Awards
The film won the Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 . This made Araya the first Latin American film to ever win an international film award. In the competition for the Golden Palm, Araya lost to Marcel Camus ' later Oscar-winning drama Orfeu Negro .
Web links
- Araya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Araya on thalassa.franc3.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Araya. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .