The ambitious project of Vera Cruz to become a powerhouse studio in South America with a joint venture with Columbia Pictures to distribute their movies at American ground sounded a great deal, however the lack of expertise of the head producer concerning expenditure restraint of the previous budge allied an expensive fees of foreigner technicians took the bankrupt in five years only, Luz Apagada belonged of the glorious days.
It's a crime-mystery offering, the plot essentially is about an older lighthouse-keeper (Erminio Spalla) at far off island at shoreline of Angra dos Reis that refuses to be retirement, he becomes recluse when his wife went to die in boat's accident, thereafter he living with his young daughter Gloria (Maria Fernanda) alone, meanwhile Gloria meets a newbie mariner Tião (Mario Sergio), both soon falling in love, although the girl out of the blue asking for a breakup without further explanations.
All become worst when a Brazil's Navy enforces a new mariner as sidekick for his grouchy father, oddly enough this new guy actually is a rascal womanizer and starting a harassment in the beauty Gloria ends up in tragic event, turns out that Tião disappears when the Navy Tennant (Sergio Hingst) reaches in the crime scene arising suspicious about a supposed involvement, hereinafter Tião re-telling his story in many flashbacks aiming for ward off any kind of guilty.
For God's sake the print of the picture is washout, it belongs nowadays by Embrafilmes in Cinemateca Brasileira's safekeeping, there's no info about the original negative, perhaps it has many damages due it hadn't a proper care in a clean and climatized chamber storage, also the sound has ups and downs along, worst some sequence the sound almost erased.
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First watch: 1992 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.25.
