Mamma Roma
Movie · 1962 · 110 min
- Synopsis
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.
- Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Original title
- Mamma Roma
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Themes
- Family, Friendship, Heist, LGBTQIA+, Marriage, Religion
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini