Metal and Melancholy 1994 Directed by Heddy Honigmann Metaal en melancholie
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.
Production Country
Netherlands
Gnere
Documentary
Production Company
Ariel Film
Release Date 31 March 1994
80 mins
