Mamma Roma (1965)

  • NR
  • 01/18/1965 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 50m

Overview

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Screenplay, Director, Story

Cast

Anna Magnani's headshot

Anna Magnani

Mamma Roma
Ettore Garofolo's headshot

Ettore Garofolo

Ettore
Franco Citti's headshot

Franco Citti

Carmine
Silvana Corsini's headshot

Silvana Corsini

Bruna
Luisa Loiano's headshot

Luisa Loiano

Biancofiore
Paolo Volponi's headshot

Paolo Volponi

Priest
Luciano Gonini's headshot

Luciano Gonini

Zacaria
Vittorio La Paglia's headshot

Vittorio La Paglia

Il Signor Pellissier

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