Mamma Roma

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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Top Cast

Anna Magnani

As Mamma Roma

Ettore Garofolo

As Ettore

Franco Citti

As Carmine

Silvana Corsini

As Bruna

Luisa Loiano

As Biancofiore

Paolo Volponi

As Priest

Luciano Gonini

As Zacaria

Vittorio La Paglia

As Il Signor Pellissier

Piero Morgia

As Piero

Franco Ceccarelli

As Carletto

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