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"Via Appia"
1992
Directed by Jochen Hick

A complex film about gay desire and paranoia. A former German steward travels to Rio to find a mysterious man who left a cryptic message, "Welcome to the AIDS Club," following a sexual encounter. "Via Appia, the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out, becomes a grim guided tour of the city's gay subculture, its bars, discos, streets and a beach known as the AIDS farm. The documentary-within-the film-format justifies this material" (Vincent Canby). With Peter Senner, Guilherme de Padua and Yves Jansen. German and Spanish with English subtitles.  90 minutes.