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Mamma Roma

Name: Mamma Roma
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama
Released: 1962
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano

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.

1962 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 110 min · Drama · 15 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by: Nino Baragli
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Carlo Rustichelli
Production design: Flavio Mogherini
Produced by: Alfredo Bini

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 Priest
Luciano Gonini as Zacaria
Vittorio La Paglia as Il Signor Pellissier
Piero Morgia as Piero
Franco Ceccarelli as Carletto

Production

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Studios: Arco Film
Themes: friendship, prostitute, rome, italy, parent child relationship, pimp, thief, wedding, church, single mother, lgbt

More by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Gospel According to St. Matthew — 1965
Medea — 1969
The Decameron — 1971
Oedipus Rex — 1967
Arabian Nights — 1974
Theorem — 1968
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — 1976
The Canterbury Tales — 1972

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