Name: The Salt of the Earth
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-01-01
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Lélia Wanick Salgado

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The poster features a lone figure in a blue shirt sitting on a golden hill, gazing out at a vast, hazy landscape under a bright blue sky. The title "The Salt of the Earth" is elegantly displayed in bold, white letters. The mood is serene and contemplative, evoking themes of nature, solitude, and ...

2014 · Movie · 110 min· Updated Oct 2026

⭐8.1

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🌐French,Portuguese,English· Originally French

Rated:PG-13

About

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

Stunningly intimate portraits of human suffering and natural wonder emerge through a lens that refuses to look away from our planet's deepest scars. This visual odyssey transforms decades of harrowing photojournalism into a profound meditation on survival and rebirth.

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Directors

Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders

Cast

Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Jacques Barthélémy, Régis Muller, João Pessoa Mattos, Leny Wanick Mattos, Maria Teresa Salgado Rocha Bastos