Mamma Roma (1962)
110 min
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.
- Release date
- September 22, 1962
- Country of origin
- Italy
Where to watch
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Trailer
Cast
- Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma
- Ettore Garofolo as Ettore
- Franco Citti as Carmine
- Silvana Corsini as Bruna
- Luisa Loiano as Biancofiore
- Paolo Volponi as Il Prete
- Luciano Gonini as Zacaria
- Vittorio La Paglia as Il sig. Pellissier
- Piero Morgia as Piero
- Franco Ceccarelli as Carletto - un amico di Ettore
- Renato Montalbano as Nurse
- Lamberto Maggiorani as Sick Man
- Renato Capogna as Pimp (uncredited)
Crew
- Pier Paolo Pasolini · Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini · Writer
- Alfredo Bini · Producer
- Tonino Delli Colli · Cinematographer
- Nino Baragli · Editor