Ossos
Nov 14 1997
•2h 37m
•Drama
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.
Cast
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Mariya Lipkina
Tina
Vanda Duarte
Clotilde
Nuno Vaz
The Father
Isabel Ruth
Nurse Eduarda Gomes
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