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Mamma Roma (1962)

Mamma Roma (1962)

Drama
Release Date: 1962, September 22
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Countries: Italy
Production: Arco Film, Arco Film
Cast: Franco Citti, Lamberto Maggiorani, Anna Magnani, Renato Montalbano, Piero Morgia, Ettore Garofolo, Paolo Volponi, Santino Citti, Mario Cipriani, Renato Capogna, Vittorio La Paglia, Maria Bernardini

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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