Mamma Roma (1962)

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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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.

Genre: Drama

Language: it

Production

Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli · Composers: Carlo Rustichelli, Antonio Vivaldi · Editor: Nino Baragli · Production Design: Flavio Mogherini

Production: Arco Film

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