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Writer:
Pier Paolo Pasolini (writer)
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Release Date:
18 January 1995 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Unforgettable Pasolini more (18 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anna Magnani ... Mamma Roma
Ettore Garofolo ... Ettore
Franco Citti ... Carmine
Silvana Corsini ... Bruna
Luisa Loiano ... Biancofiore
Paolo Volponi ... Il Prete (Priest)
Luciano Gonini ... Zacaria
Vittorio La Paglia ... Il sig. Pellissier
Piero Morgia ... Piero
Lanfranco Ceccarelli ... Carletto (as Franco Ceccarelli)
Marcello Sorrentino ... Tonino
Sandro Meschino ... Pasquale
Franco Tovo ... Augusto
Pasquale Ferrarese ... Lino
Leandro Santarelli ... Begalo
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
106 min | USA:110 min | Argentina:110 min | UK:95 min (original version)
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Italy:VM14 (cinema release) (1962) | Spain:7 | Portugal:M/12 | Netherlands:6 | Australia:M | Spain:T (DVD re-rating) | Argentina:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1997) | UK:X (original rating)
Filming Locations:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Company:
Arco Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
At the films premiere in the Quattro Fontane Cinema (Rome, 22nd September 1962) Mr. Pier Paolo Pasolini was attacked by fascists' who protested against the film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Mamma Roma takes off the veil from the bride and puts it on herself, the bride is shown still wearing the veil. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood (1981) more
Soundtrack:
Una vez me dormí more

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Unforgettable Pasolini, 20 July 2005
10/10
Author: Jes Beier from Denmark

Strong and tragic movie with an amazing Anna Magnani as the broken-down woman who fight for a dignified life in the slum of Rome. Uncompromising social realism and no one could like Pasolini use music as a consequent commentary to the themes in the film. In his movies the music is not isolated to the specific scene, but always to the film as a hole. He does this in a way so that the viewer is being compelled into the movie and becomes an "active" participant in the action. It is characteristic for Italian movies in general, but Pasolini achieved this in the most painfully and hypnotic way. Maybe with a tendency towards the rhetorical but that does not weaken the film. It is a masterpiece!

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