Via Appia
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...
- Year : 1990
- Country : Germany
- Genre : Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Studio : freihändler filmproduktion, Galeria Alaska Productions, ZDF
- Keyword : aids, rio de janeiro, hiv, male prostitution, gay theme
- Director : Jochen Hick
- Cast : Peter Senner, Guilherme de Pádua, Yves Jansen, Margarita Schmidt, José Carlos Berenguer, Gustavo Motta