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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Prestige, grave, earnest and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Anna MagnaniMamma Roma
- Ettore GarofoloEttore
- Franco CittiCarmine
- Silvana CorsiniBruna
- Luisa LoianoBiancofiore
- Paolo VolponiPriest
- Luciano GoniniZacaria
- Vittorio La PagliaIl Signor Pellissier
- Piero MorgiaPiero
- Franco CeccarelliCarletto
Crew
- Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector
- Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay
- Tonino Delli ColliDirector of Photography
- Antonio VivaldiOriginal Music Composer
- Carlo RustichelliOriginal Music Composer
- Nino BaragliEditor
- Alfredo BiniProducer
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