Metal and Melancholy

Peru is made of metal and melancholy

Metal and Melancholy — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 31, 1994
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Heddy Honigmann

Metal and Melancholy — Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz Himself - Taxi driver