Metal and Melancholy
1994, NL. Directed by Heddy Honigmann.
Peru is made of metal and melancholy
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- NL
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- Released
- 31 March 1994
- Original title
- Metaal en melancholie
- Country
- Netherlands, Peru
- Written by
- Peter Delpeut, Heddy Honigmann
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Who directed Metal and Melancholy?
Metal and Melancholy (1994) was directed by Heddy Honigmann and stars Jorge Rodríguez Paz.