3.8

Via Appia

Name: Via Appia
Director: Jochen Hick
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Released: 1990-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 3.833
Cast: Peter Senner, Guilherme de Pádua, Yves Jansen, Margarita Schmidt, José Carlos Berenguer

“A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld”

19901h 30m

AdventureRomanceDrama

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...