Via Appia (1990)
A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld
Frank, a HIV infected former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José (Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out...
- Date of release
- 1990-09-01
- TMDB
- 4.3 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Director
- Jochen Hick
Casting
- Peter Senner — Frank
- Guilherme de Pádua — José
- Yves Jansen — Regisseur
- Margarita Schmidt — Lucia
- José Carlos Berenguer — Sergio
- Gustavo Motta — Ulieno
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