Via Appia

---

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...

---

Title: Via Appia
Director: Jochen Hick
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Country: USA
Language: English | German | Spanish | Portuguese
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100865/
User Rating: 6.3/10