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Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo and Franco Citti.
Mamma Roma: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini. An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
- (11K)
- Drama
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 1965-01-18
With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore.
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable ...
- (19)
- Anna Magnani
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 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.
- 110 min
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A tantalizing by-product of the Italian neorealist movement, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma goes a long way to explaining how someone could go from directing the gritty-but-reverent The Gospel According to St. Matthew to the austere philosophical games of Teorema and its more extreme successors in the 1970s. Often overshadowed in his day by ...