Mamma Roma
1962 · directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Rating
- 85/100
- Hit
- yes
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.
Mamma Roma (1962), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, rates 85/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Anna Magnani
- Ettore Garofolo
- Franco Citti
- Silvana Corsini
- Luisa Loiano
- Paolo Volponi
- Luciano Gonini
- Vittorio La Paglia
- Piero Morgia
- Franco Ceccarelli
Crew
- Tonino Delli Colli — Director of Photography
- Nino Baragli — Editor
- Antonio Vivaldi — Original Music Composer
- Carlo Rustichelli — Original Music Composer
- Pier Paolo Pasolini — Screenplay
More from Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Accattone (1961) — 86/100 · hit
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965) — 81/100 · hit
- Love Meetings (1965) — 79/100
- Oedipus Rex (1967) — 78/100
- The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) — 77/100
- Theorem (1968) — 75/100
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