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Via Appia

Via Appia

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 1, 1990

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Adventure, Drama, Romance

User Score

44%

Original Title

Via Appia

Production Companies

freihändler filmproduktion, Galeria Alaska Productions, ZDF

Director

Jochen Hick

Description

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...