Metal and Melancholy
“Peru is made of metal and melancholy”
1994•1h 20m•7.6•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Heddy Honigmann
Writer
Heddy Honigmann, Peter Delpeut
Languages
Spanish
Studio
Ariel Film
Cast
Jorge Rodríguez Paz
Himself - Taxi driver
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