Metal and Melancholy
Movie| Title | Metaal en melancholie |
| User score | 6.8 |
| Release date | Mar 31, 1994 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Heddy Honigmann |
| Production country | Netherlands |
| Production companies | Ariel Film |
| Run time | 80 min. |
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.
