Mamma Roma

1962 · 1h50 · Film

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi, Luciano Gonini, Vittorio La Paglia, Piero Morgia, Franco Ceccarelli

Ideal when you feel… Sad / low Exhausted

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.

Original language

Italian

Screenplay

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Music

Antonio Vivaldi, Carlo Rustichelli

Cinematography

Tonino Delli Colli

Cast

Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi, Luciano Gonini, Vittorio La Paglia, Piero Morgia, Franco Ceccarelli, Marcello Sorrentino, Sandro Meschino

Updated July 22, 2026

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