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Metal and Melancholy

"Peru is made of metal and melancholy"

1994-03-31
6.8
nl 80m
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.

Writer

Peter Delpeut

Director

Heddy Honigmann

Cinematography

Stef Tijdink

Writer

Heddy Honigmann

taxi peru cab driver woman director lima lima, peru

Status

Released

Countries

  • Netherlands

Companies

  • Ariel Film