"Peru is made of metal and melancholy"31 March 1994Factual80 mins
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.
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minutes of a great documentary about lima's taxis in the 1990sit should be rediffused on tv!by Heddy Honigmannvery good reporter.
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