MAMMA ROMA
synopsis
With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, and determined former streetwalker, Mamma Roma, renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing sixteen-year-old son, Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover, Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall; however, a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the grown-up world; nevertheless, can a single mother alone protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?
original title: | Mamma Roma |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1962 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
film run: | 106' |
release date: | IT 31/08/1962, UK 01/1964, HU 19/08/1965, DK 31/01/1966, DE 28/07/1966, DD 05/05/1967, ES 30/09/1967, FI 20/01/1968, SE 18/12/1968, PL 13/10/1974, FR 07/01/1976, PT 10/01/1992, GR 12/07/2002, RU 01/07/2011 |
screenplay: | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
cast: | Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti |
cinematography by: | Tonino Delli Colli |
film editing: | Nino Baragli |
producer: | Alfredo Bini |