Via Appia

Via Appia

A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld

1990 de 90 minutes

Rating: 4.4

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...

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Cast

Peter Senner

Peter Senner

Frank

Guilherme de Pádua

Guilherme de Pádua

José

Yves Jansen

Yves Jansen

Regisseur

Margarita Schmidt

Margarita Schmidt

Lucia

José Carlos Berenguer

José Carlos Berenguer

Sergio

Gustavo Motta

Gustavo Motta

Ulieno

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