Director
1926 - 2024
Margot Benacerraf
Caracas, Venezuela
Margot Benacerraf was a Venezuelan film director. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris and is best known for her 1959 award-winning film Araya. Founder of the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in 1966 and its director for three years... Read full bio →
Araya
Margot Benacerraf
1959
1h 30m
8.0
"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.
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