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Metal and Melancholy 1994

Peru is portrayed as a land of metal and melancholy in this offbeat road‑movie documentary. Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann rides with Lima’s taxi drivers, uncovering their stories. Set in the early‑1990s, amid soaring inflation, governmental corruption and Shining Path terrorism, the film shows how many middle‑class professionals turned their own cars into cabs to survive the economic crisis.

Peru is portrayed as a land of metal and melancholy in this offbeat road‑movie documentary. Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann rides with Lima’s taxi drivers, uncovering their stories. Set in the early‑1990s, amid soaring inflation, governmental corruption and Shining Path terrorism, the film shows how many middle‑class professionals turned their own cars into cabs to survive the economic crisis.

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