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Mamma Roma
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Title: Mamma Roma

Release Date: 22 Sep 1962

Runtime: 1h 50m

Genre: Drama

Director: Arco Film

Production Companies: Arco Film

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.9 (406 votes)

Cast

  • Mamma Roma: Anna Magnani
  • Ettore: Ettore Garofolo
  • Carmine: Franco Citti
  • Bruna: Silvana Corsini
  • Biancofiore: Luisa Loiano
  • Priest: Paolo Volponi
  • Zacaria: Luciano Gonini
  • Il Signor Pellissier: Vittorio La Paglia
  • Piero: Piero Morgia
  • Carletto: Franco Ceccarelli
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