Mamma Roma (1962)

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.

Key facts

Released:
1962-09-22
Runtime:
110 min
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Top cast:
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi
Original language:
IT
TMDB rating:
7.9/10 from 439 votes
Bynge Score:
7.8/10

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