Mamma Roma1962

Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Acters

Anna Magnani (Mamma Roma)
Ettore Garofolo (Ettore)
Franco Citti (Carmine)
Silvana Corsini (Bruna)
Luisa Loiano (Biancofiore)
Paolo Volponi (Il Prete)

A former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
With a yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world. Can a lone single mother protect her son from the same snares that wounded her youth?
Mamma Roma was attacked by both the Right and the Left, for opposite reasons, momentarily censured after its premiere at the 1962 Venice Film Festival when a local cop charged it with obscenity, and caused a riot when a group of neo-Fascist students invaded its Roman premiere.
“Pier Paolo Pasolini’s main focus during the neorealist movement of Italian cinema was humanity and characterization. One of his greatest films, Mama Roma, is a collection of feelings and hopes and dreams.” – Extrasensory Films
“Magnani’s Mamma Ro’ is a marvel to behold; Magnani is perfect as the loud, abrasive, vulgar, and thoroughly alive Mamma Ro’. It’s a sumptuous role, one that requires intense knowledge of both physical acting and the subtlety of a nuanced performance, and Magnani pulls it off terrifically.” – Austin Chronicle
“It’s a hell of a drama; realistic, emotional, lusty, cruel and desperate. Written and Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini who was no stranger to the darker side of Rome, it’s a tour-de-force from start to finish.” – Myreviwer.com