Metal and Melancholy

1h 20min

Documentary

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.

Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

Himself - Taxi driver

Release date

31st Mar 1994

Status

Released

Spoken languages

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