Metal and Melancholy
7.9
“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.
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Heddy Honigmann Director · Peter Delpeut Writer
United States release April 5, 1994 · Produced in Netherlands, Peru · Original title Metaal en melancholie
Production
Ariel Film
Production
Netherlands · Peru
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Original title
Metaal en melancholie
Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Netherlands · March 31, 1994
Theatrical
United States · April 5, 1994
Theatrical
Netherlands
January 22, 2009 · Physical · DVD
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