Via Appia

4.4 / 10

(5 votes)

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...

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Adventure,

Drama,

Romance

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

1990

Director:

Jochen Hick

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Company:

freihändler filmproduktion,

Galeria Alaska Productions,

ZDF

Cast:
Peter Senner

Frank

Guilherme de Pádua

José

Yves Jansen

Regisseur

Margarita Schmidt

Lucia

José Carlos Berenguer

Sergio

Crew:
Norbert Friedländer

Producer

Charly Schöppner

Music

Peter-Christian Neumann

Cinematography

Jochen Hick

Director

Jochen Hick

Writer