Metaal en melancholie

"Peru is made of metal and melancholy"

Apr 5 1995 N/A 1h 20m
Documentary, Drama

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.

Plot

In 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima. They represent the perseverance and ingenuity with which the everyday man survived and overcame the turbulence of the times in order to achieve advancement for themselves and their families.

Written by

Peter Delpeut, Heddy Honigmann

Directed by

Heddy Honigmann

Production Countries

Netherlands

Production Companies

Ariel Film

Languages

Español

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
217
Average Rating
7.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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