Via Appia
1990
A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld
- Jochen Hick
- 1h 30m
- September 1, 1990 · Germany
Overview
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...
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 1, 1990
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Countries
- Germany
- Cast
- Peter Senner,Guilherme de Pádua,Yves Jansen,Margarita Schmidt,José Carlos Berenguer,Gustavo Motta
- Director
- Jochen Hick
- Writer
- Jochen Hick
- Producer
- Norbert Friedländer,Jochen Hick
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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