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1997

Ossos

Directed by Pedro Costa

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.

Duration

1h 37m

Released

November 14, 1997

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6.8

Rating44

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Lists6

Cast11

  • Mariya Lipkina
  • Vanda Duarte
  • Nuno Vaz
  • Isabel Ruth
  • Miguel Sermão
  • Berta Susana Teixeira
  • Inês de Medeiros
  • Anna Carvalho
  • Ana Marta

Part ofThe The Fontainhas Collection

Includes In Vanda's Room (2001), Colossal Youth (2006), Horse Money (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019), and Ossos (1997).

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