Ossos

Nov 14, 1997

1h 37m

★ 6.8

Overview

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Madragoa Filmes

Gemini Films

Zentropa Entertainments

Ossos Trailers

Cast

Tina

Mariya Lipkina

Clotilde

Vanda Duarte

The Father

Nuno Vaz

Nurse Eduarda Gomes

Isabel Ruth

Clotilde's husband

Miguel Sermão

Nurse

Berta Susana Teixeira

The Girl

Inês de Medeiros

Prostitute

Anna Carvalho

Ana Marta

Friend

Clotilde Montron

Friend

Zita Duarte

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