Movie Description

Metaal en melancholie

(1994)

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.

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Original TitleMetaal en melancholie

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1994-03-31

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 01h 20m

Production CompaniesAriel Film

Genres

  • Documentary