Release Date

01 Sep, 1990

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Peter Senner

Guilherme de Pádua

Yves Jansen

Margarita Schmidt

José Carlos Berenguer

Gustavo Motta

Crew

Norbert Friedländer

Peter-Christian Neumann

Charly Schöppner

Jochen Hick

Jochen Hick

Jochen Hick