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Via Appia (1990)
Directed by Jochen Hick
“A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld”
Adventure, Drama, Romance · 1h 30m
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...
Cast
Guilherme de Pádua
Crew
- Director
- Jochen Hick
- Writer
- Jochen Hick
- Producer
- Norbert Friedländer, Jochen Hick
Details
- Release date
- 1990-09-01
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- freihändler filmproduktion, Galeria Alaska Productions, ZDF