Backlight

Backlight

6.1IMDb Score
Released:2010-07-10
Duration:90 min
Director:Fernando Fragata
Actors:Joaquim de Almeida, Evelina Pereira, Scott Bailey, Michelle Mania, Ana Cristina Oliveira
Production:Virtual Audiovisuais
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Overview:

Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.

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