Ossos backdrop

Ossos 1997 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.

Language Portuguese
Spoken Language Portuguese
Release Date 14 November 1997
97 mins
Cast
Vanda Duarte Clotilde
Nuno Vaz The Father
Isabel Ruth Nurse Eduarda Gomes
Miguel Sermão Clotilde's husband
Anna Carvalho Prostitute
Zita Duarte Friend