Metal and Melancholy

Metal and Melancholy

1994
1h 20m
7.3

7.3/10

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"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.

Status: Released

Language: NL

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Production Information

Production Companies
Ariel Film
Production Countries
Netherlands Peru
Spoken Languages
Spanish

Quick Facts

Original Title Metaal en melancholie
Release Date March 31, 1994
Status Released
Language NL
IMDb ID tt0107558

Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz
Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Himself - Taxi driver

Key Crew

Heddy Honigmann
Writer
Peter Delpeut
Writer
Heddy Honigmann
Director