Mamma Roma
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.
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
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15 billed performers
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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.
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- Release date
- Sep 22, 1962
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
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