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Via Appia

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Rated 4.3 on TMDB

Via Appia

A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld

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...

Released: 1990
Runtime: 1h 30m
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Language: German

Direction and writing

Jochen HickDirector, Writer

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Cast

Peter SennerFrank
Guilherme de PáduaJosé
Yves JansenRegisseur

Margarita SchmidtLucia
José Carlos BerenguerSergio
Gustavo MottaUlieno

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