Via Appia Movie Review 1992

Fictional documentary about Frank, a German airline steward who brings a film crew with him when travels back to Rio de Janeiro in search of the street hustler who gave him AIDS. Grim guided tour of the city's gay subculture along the "Via Appia," the Rio district where the male prostitutes hang out. Film is firmly unapologetic for its sexual explicitness and lack of moralizing. In German and Portuguese with English subtitles.

Distribution

Facets Multimedia, Inc., 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, Phone: (773)281-9075, Toll-free: 800-331-6197, Fax: (773)929-5437, Email: sales@facets.org, URL: http://www.facets.org

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from German, Brazilian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Gays, AIDS, Oldest Profession, Sex & Sexuality, Rio

Screenplay

Jochen Hick

Cast

Peter Senner, Guilherme de Padua, Yves Jansen, Margarita Schmidt, Luiz Kleber

Director

Jochen Hick

Producer

Norbert Friedlander, Strand Releasing