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The Salt Mines

The Salt Mines

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 1, 1990

Runtime

0h 47m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Salt Mines

Production Companies

Frameline, Starfish

Director

Susana Aikin

Description

The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as "The Salt Mines".