Movie: Via Appia

Top 6 Billed Cast

Peter Senner
Peter Senner

Frank

Guilherme de Pádua
Guilherme de Pádua

José

Yves Jansen
Yves Jansen

Regisseur

Margarita Schmidt
Margarita Schmidt

Lucia

José Carlos Berenguer
José Carlos Berenguer

Sergio

Gustavo Motta
Gustavo Motta

Ulieno

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    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...

  • Release Date

    1990-09-01

  • Average

    4.4

  • Rating:

    2.2 starts
  • Tagline

    A controversial movie about Brazil's seedy underworld

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