Synopsis
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.
Mamma Roma (1962) is a 1h 50min drama feature film by Pier Paolo Pasolini. After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to bu... Selected for Bolton International Film Festival (2022).
Facts
Setting
Rome
Production
Arco Film
Original language
Italian
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- Berlin International Film Festival 2022 generic
- Bolton International Film Festival 2022
- Jeonju International Film Festival 2022 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1976 generic
- Venice Film Festival 1962 generic
