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Metal and Melancholy
1994 6.8 (6 votes) 1h 20m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Ariel Film

Metal and Melancholy (Metaal en melancholie)

Peru is made of metal and melancholy

Overview

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.

Key Crew

Writer: Heddy Honigmann, Peter Delpeut

Director: Heddy Honigmann

Top Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Himself - Taxi driver

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