Mamma Roma (1962)

09/22/1962 (IT) • 1h 50m

Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast


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Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

friendship

prostitute

rome, italy

parent child relationship

pimp

thief

wedding

church

single mother

lgbt

iconography

neorealism

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