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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Ratings: | IMDB: 5.1/10 | |
Released: | January 1, 1989 | |
Runtime: | 89 min | |
Genres: | Adventure Drama Romance | |
Countries: | Germany | |
Companies: | Freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH Galeria Alaska Productions Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ZDF | |
Cast: | Yves Jansen Peter Senner Guilherme de Pádua | |
Crew: | Jochen Hick | |
Capezzios & Soda : "Oy ze/zem!"