Metal and Melancholy
Directed by Heddy HonigmannMarch 31, 1994 80mDocumentary, Drama
7.87.4
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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Metal and Melancholy was released on March 31, 1994.
Metal and Melancholy was directed by Heddy Honigmann.
Metal and Melancholy has a runtime of 80m.
Metal and Melancholy was produced by Suzanne van Voorst.
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.
The key characters in Metal and Melancholy are Himself - Taxi driver (Jorge Rodríguez Paz).
Metal and Melancholy is a Documentary, Drama film.
Metal and Melancholy has an audience rating of 7.8 out of 10.