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Mood:
- Gloomy
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Plot:
- ProstituteGoing StraightStarting OverHuman NatureRedemptionParents and ChildrenDown on Your LuckHopes more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- EuropeRome
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedMasterpiece
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Mamma Roma, 1962
Italian
Italy
Profile of Mamma Roma
The mood of Mamma Roma is gloomy. The plot centers around a prostitute, going straight, and starting over. It is a drama and foreign movie. In approach, Mamma Roma is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is Rome. Mamma Roma happens in the 1960s. The movie is known for being a masterpiece and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Mamma Roma
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) 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 (Ettore Garofalo) she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp (Franco Citti) threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Details
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Release date: | 18 January 1995 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
Cast and Crew
as Mamma Roma
as Ettore
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