Movie

Metal and Melancholy

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.

Screenplay

Heddy Honigmann

Screenplay

Peter Delpeut

Director

Heddy Honigmann

Status

Released

Release date

31/03/1994

Original language

Dutch