Mamma Roma
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Italy · 1962
1h 50m
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Genre Drama
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After years of sex work 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.
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