Mamma Roma (1962)

What it’s about

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

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  Anna Magnani

  Mamma Roma

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  Ettore Garofolo

  Ettore

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  Franco Citti

  Carmine

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  Silvana Corsini

  Bruna

• L

  Luisa Loiano

  Biancofiore

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  Paolo Volponi

  Priest

• L

  Luciano Gonini

  Zacaria

• V

  Vittorio La Paglia

  Il Signor Pellissier

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  Piero Morgia

  Piero

• F

  Franco Ceccarelli

  Carletto

• M

  Marcello Sorrentino

  Tonino

• S

  Sandro Meschino

  Pasquale