Via Appia
4.9
“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...
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Cast
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Peter Senner
Frank
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Guilherme de Pádua
José
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Jochen Hick
Norbert Friedländer
Charly Schöppner
Yves Jansen
Regisseur
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Ein heikler Fall
November Moon
Peter-Christian Neumann
Margarita Schmidt
Lucia
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José Carlos Berenguer
Sergio
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Gustavo Motta
Ulieno
Jochen Hick Director
United States release January 1, 1991 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Production
freihändler filmproduktion
Production
Galeria Alaska Productions
Production
ZDF
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German · Portuguese · Spanish
Release dates
Germany · September 1, 1990
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1991
United Kingdom
January 1, 1995
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