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Metal and Melancholy (1994) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1994 · 80 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Heddy Honigmann
- Starring
- Jorge Rodríguez Paz
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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