Mamma Roma
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Directed byPier Paolo Pasolini
Written byPier Paolo Pasolini
Produced byAlfredo Bini
Starring
- Anna Magnani
- Ettore Garofolo
- Franco Citti
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| Directed by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Written by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Produced by | Alfredo Bini |
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| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Music by | Antonio Vivaldi |
Production company | Arco Film |
| Distributed by | Cineriz |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, and Franco Citti.[1][2]
After her pimp Carmine marries, prostitute Mamma Roma starts a new life as a marketer in Rome to enable her 16-year-old son Ettore a better life. She finds him a job as a waiter by blackmailing a trattoria owner and tries to draw him away from his thieving friends and occasional streetwalker Bruna. When Mamma Roma is forced back into prostitution by Carmine and Ettore finds out about it, he returns to his previous habits. Caught during a theft in a hospital, Ettore dies in jail from a fever, leaving behind his grieving, desperate mother.
Cast
- Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma
- Ettore Garofolo as Ettore
- Franco Citti as Carmine
- Silvana Corsini as Bruna
- Luisa Loiano as Biancofiore
- Paolo Volponi as Priest
- Luciano Gonini as Zacaria
