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Mamma Roma (1962) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Anna Magnani ..... Mamma Roma
Ettore Garofolo ..... Ettore
Franco Citti ..... Carmine
Silvana Corsini ..... Bruna
Luisa Loiano ..... Biancofiore
Paolo Volponi ..... Il Prete (Priest)
Luciano Gonini ..... Zacaria
Vittorio La Paglia ..... Il sig. Pellissier
Piero Morgia ..... Piero
Lanfranco Ceccarelli ..... Carletto (as Franco Ceccarelli)
Marcello Sorrentino ..... Tonino
Sandro Meschino ..... Pasquale
Franco Tovo ..... Augusto
Pasquale Ferrarese ..... Lino
Leandro Santarelli ..... Begalo

Synopsis:

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.

At the wedding of her former pimp to a country girl, Mamma Roma celebrates her own liberation from a life of reluctant prostitution. She sells vegetables in the outdoor market and dreams of a respectable future for her teenage son, Ettore. Not even her pimp's continuing demands for money can tarnish her hopes. Desperate to save her handsome young son from the various temptations of life in the big city, Mamma Roma blackmails a restaurateur into giving the boy a job. Tragically, her happiness is too brief--her pimp forces Mamma Roma back on the street and Ettore learns of his mother's profession.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's second feature film displays his eccentricities without veering into the perversity of his later work. Anna Magnani is all raw emotion as a former prostitute and the mother of a handsome teen-age son (Ettore Garofolo). In a sinister, voluptuous world of pimps and whores, the mother guides the boy with an overwrought abandon. Beneath the ribaldry, however, are forces pulling her toward a frightening past.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 25 January, 2014.

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