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Mamma Roma (1962) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1962 · 110 mins · Italian
- Directed by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Starring
- Lamberto Maggiorani, Anna Magnani, Piero Morgia, Antonio Spoletini, Franco Citti, Ettore Garofolo
After years of prostitution in her Italian village, middle‑aged Mamma Roma finally saves enough to purchase a fruit stand, hoping to forge a respectable middle‑class existence and reconnect with the 16‑year‑old son she left as an infant. Yet her former pimp threatens to expose her past, and her son seems poised to slip into a life of crime and violence.
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