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Mamma Roma
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Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film directed and written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The production was handled by producer Alfredo Bini and company Arco Film. The cast includes Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Paolo Volponi, and Lamberto Maggiorani. The narrative is set in Rome and focuses on the subject of prostitution.
The film was shot in black-and-white on 35 mm film. Tonino Delli Colli served as director of photography, with editing by Nino Baragli. The score features music by Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Rustichelli, while Flavio Mogherini designed the production. It has a runtime of 110 minutes.
Mamma Roma has received review scores of 7.8 out of 10 and 95 percent. It holds a vote average of 7.9 on one platform and a rating of 7.7 on another. The film is distributed by Netflix and available via video on demand. It is also provided by the Criterion Channel.
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Film · TMDB
7.9After 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.
Cast
- Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma
- Ettore Garofolo as Ettore
- Franco Citti as Carmine
- Silvana Corsini as Bruna
- Luisa Loiano as Biancofiore
- Paolo Volponi as Priest
Themes
- friendship
- prostitute
- rome, italy
- parent child relationship
- pimp
- thief
- wedding
- church
- single mother
- lgbt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- Italian
- Main subject
- prostitution
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Screenwriter
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Composer
- Carlo Rustichelli
- Producer
- Alfredo Bini
- Cinematographer
- Tonino Delli Colli
- Narrative location
- Rome
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 547127
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma.png
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- publication date
- 1962-01-01
- film editor
- Nino Baragli
- title
- Mamma Roma
- production designer
- Flavio Mogherini
- color
- black-and-white
- Commons category
- Mamma Roma
- film format
- 35 mm film
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 95%
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