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.

Cast

Anna Magnani Mamma Roma

Ettore Garofolo Ettore

Franco Citti Carmine

Silvana Corsini Bruna

Luisa Loiano Biancofiore

Paolo Volponi Priest

Luciano Gonini Zacaria

Vittorio La Paglia Il Signor Pellissier

Where to Watch

Criterion Channel