3 Films & TV Shows Set In Venezuela During The 1950s
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El Benny
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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Araya
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950s"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.
