Ossos · 1997

Ossos

Pedro Costa · 97 min · Denmark

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.

Did you know

Awards

2 wins & 6 nominations

Production companies

Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Films, Zentropa Entertainments

Locations

• Exact location
• Approximate: the city or region
• Filming
• Setting

Locations catalogued on Wikidata. Where only the city or region is known, the dot marks its centre, not the exact filming spot.

Setting

Lisboa

Location data: Wikidata · Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

Know where it was shot? You can add it on Wikidata.

Cast

• 

  Mariya Lipkina

  Tina

• 

  Vanda Duarte

  Clotilde

• Nuno Vaz

  The Father

• 

  Isabel Ruth

  Nurse Eduarda Gomes

• 

  Miguel Sermão

  Clotilde's husband

• 

  Berta Susana Teixeira

  Nurse

• Inês de Medeiros

  The Girl

• 

  Anna Carvalho

  Prostitute