Via Appia, Jul 11, 1992 | 8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

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Director

Jöchen Hick

Year

1989

Run Time

min

Country

Germany

Language

German

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

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…

This film is presented in German with English subtitles.

Frank, a handsome German airline steward wakes up one morning after a night of casual sex in Rio to find "Welcome to the AIDS Club" written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror. This begins an intensely unsettling and controversial thriller that charts Frank's journey to the bathhouses and beaches of Brazil in his attempt to find his fatal lover.

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