Mamma Roma (1962)
September 22, 1962 (IT) • Drama • 110m
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.
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writers
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Top Billed
Anna Magnani
Keywords
friendship prostitute rome, italy parent child relationship pimp thief wedding church single mother lgbt iconography neorealism
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Status
Released
Original Language
IT
Budget
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