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...

• DirectorJochen Hick
• Release1 September 1990
• Genre
  Adventure / Drama
• Duration1h 30m
• Budget?
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  4.4
  5 reviews
• Productions

  freihändler filmproduktion, Galeria Alaska Productions, ZDF