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Mamma Roma
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Mamma Roma

1962-09-22 · 110 min · ★ 7.9

Drama

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.

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Directors
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Production companies
Arco Film
Countries
Italy
Status
Released

Top Cast

Anna MagnaniAnna MagnaniMamma Roma
Ettore GarofoloEttore GarofoloEttore
Franco CittiFranco CittiCarmine
Silvana CorsiniSilvana CorsiniBruna
Luisa LoianoBiancofiore
Paolo VolponiPaolo VolponiPriest
Luciano GoniniZacaria
Vittorio La PagliaIl Signor Pellissier
Piero MorgiaPiero MorgiaPiero
Franco CeccarelliCarletto
Marcello SorrentinoTonino
Sandro MeschinoPasquale
Franco TovoAugusto
Pasquale FerrareseLino
Leandro SantarelliBegalo
Emanuele Di BariGennarino il Trovatore
Antonio SpoletiniAntonio SpoletiniUn Pompieretto
Nino BionciUn Pittoretto
Nino VenziA Client
Maria BernardiniThe Bride

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