Via Appia

A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld

Via Appia — Plot

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...

• Release date
• September 1, 1990
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Adventure, Drama, Romance
• Director
• Jochen Hick

Via Appia — Cast

P

Peter Senner Frank Guilherme de Pádua José

Y

Yves Jansen Regisseur

M

Margarita Schmidt Lucia

J

José Carlos Berenguer Sergio

G

Gustavo Motta Ulieno