Mamma Roma

Synopsis

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

Piero Morgia

Piero

Franco Ceccarelli

Carletto