friendship,prostitute,rome, italy,parent child relationship,pimp,thief,wedding,church,single mother,lgbt,iconography,neorealism

Mamma Roma (1962)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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    Mamma Roma Anna Magnani
  • Profile picture of Ettore Garofolo
    Ettore Ettore Garofolo
  • Profile picture of Franco Citti
    Carmine Franco Citti
  • Profile picture of Silvana Corsini
    Bruna Silvana Corsini
  • Profile picture of Paolo Volponi
    Priest Paolo Volponi
  • Profile picture of Piero Morgia
    Piero Piero Morgia
  • Profile picture of Renato Montalbano
    Nurse Renato Montalbano
  • Profile picture of Lamberto Maggiorani
    Sick Man Lamberto Maggiorani

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Keywords

  • friendship
  • prostitute
  • rome, italy
  • parent child relationship
  • pimp
  • thief
  • wedding
  • church
  • single mother
  • lgbt
  • iconography
  • neorealism