Metal and Melancholy (1994)
Peru is made of metal and melancholy
7.4(8)1h 20mMarch 31, 1994
Heddy Honigmann
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Heddy Honigmann, Peter Delpeut
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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.
