Mamma Roma
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.
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Cast
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Anna Magnani
Mamma Roma
Known for
Bellissima
Rome, Open City
Ettore Garofolo
Ettore
Known for
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
An Average Little Man
Franco Citti
Carmine
Known for
Accattone
Oedipus Rex
Silvana Corsini
Bruna
Known for
Accattone
Luisa Loiano
Biancofiore
Also in
Accattone
Paolo Volponi
Priest
Also in
Two Pieces of Bread
Luciano Gonini
Zacaria
Known for
Accattone
Vittorio La Paglia
Il Signor Pellissier
Also in
High Infidelity
Piero Morgia
Piero
Known for
Accattone
The Scopone Game
Franco Ceccarelli
Carletto
Marcello Sorrentino
Tonino
No other roles listed
Sandro Meschino
Pasquale
No other roles listed
Pier Paolo Pasolini Director · Antonio Vivaldi Composer Carlo Rustichelli Composer
United States release January 18, 1965 · Produced in Italy
Production
Arco Film
Production
Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · August 31, 1962
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Italy · September 22, 1962
Theatrical
United States · January 18, 1965
Theatrical
France
January 7, 1976 · Theatrical
December 1, 1999 · Physical · DVD
June 6, 2023 · Physical · Blu-Ray
Greece
January 20, 2003 · Physical · DVD
Hungary
August 19, 1965 · Theatrical
Netherlands
October 14, 2008 · Physical · DVD
Poland
October 13, 1974 · Theatrical
South Korea
August 20, 2025 · Theatrical
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