The Ossuary (1970)
- Original title
- Kostnice
- Directed by
- Jan Švankmajer
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A camera tours a small church in Czechoslovakia built from thousands of human skeletons. The film shows the bones arranged into chandeliers, coats of arms, and other ornaments with no narration or story.
dreamlikeunsettlingslow-burnmacabrecerebralvisually lushbleakcontemplative
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