Via Appia

Via Appia (1990)

A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld

  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 1990-09-01
  • User Rating: 4.4/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: freihändler filmproduktion
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Jochen Hick
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Summary

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...

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  • Peter Senner

    as Frank
  • Guilherme de Pádua

    as José
  • Yves Jansen

    as Regisseur
  • Margarita Schmidt

    as Lucia
  • José Carlos Berenguer

    as Sergio
  • Gustavo Motta

    as Ulieno
Crew Peter-Christian Neumann Cinematography
Production Norbert Friedländer Producer
Sound Charly Schöppner Music
Directing Jochen Hick Director
Writing Jochen Hick Writer
Production Jochen Hick Producer

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