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Metal and Melancholy

19946.8 / 1080 min
Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Himself - Taxi driver

Crew

Peter Delpeut

Peter Delpeut

Writer

Heddy Honigmann

Heddy Honigmann

Director

Stef Tijdink

Stef Tijdink

Cinematography

Heddy Honigmann

Heddy Honigmann

Writer