Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son. However, an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life. Can she protect him from the same snares that wounded her youth?
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Cast
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| Anna Magnani | ... | Mamma Roma | |
| Ettore Garofolo | ... | Ettore | |
| Franco Citti | ... | Carmine | |
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Silvana Corsini | ... | Bruna |
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Luisa Loiano | ... | Biancofiore |
| Paolo Volponi | ... | Il Prete (Priest) | |
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Luciano Gonini | ... | Zacaria |
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Vittorio La Paglia | ... | Il sig. Pellissier |
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Piero Morgia | ... | Piero |
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Franco Ceccarelli | ... | Carletto |
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Marcello Sorrentino | ... | Tonino |
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Sandro Meschino | ... | Pasquale |
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Franco Tovo | ... | Augusto |
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Pasquale Ferrarese | ... | Lino |
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Leandro Santarelli | ... | Begalo |
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With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, and determined former streetwalker, Mamma Roma, renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing sixteen-year-old son, Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover, Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall; however, a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the grown-up world; nevertheless, can a single mother alone protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth? Written by Nick Riganas
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Country:
ItalyLanguage:
ItalianRelease Date:
18 January 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Мама Рома See more »Filming Locations:
Rome, Lazio, ItalyEdit
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Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Runtime:
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Ettore: Why are you taking me to Rome?
Mamma Roma: To keep the Pope company!
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(uncredited)
Music by Cesare A. Bixio (as Bixio)
Lyrics by Bruno Cherubini (as Cherubini)
Performed by Anna Magnani
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #236. See more »Goofs
When Mamma Roma removes Clementina's veil and puts it on her own head, the camera cuts to Carmine's reaction. Next to him, we can see the sides of the veil still on Clementina's head. See more »Quotes
Mamma Roma: Good thing I'm taking you back to Rome with me or who knows what you'd end up like here.Ettore: Why are you taking me to Rome?
Mamma Roma: To keep the Pope company!
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Referenced in Come si fa a non amare Pier Paolo Pasolini - Appunti per un film sull'immondezza (2005) See more »Soundtracks
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Music by Cesare A. Bixio (as Bixio)
Lyrics by Bruno Cherubini (as Cherubini)
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