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Celebrating Anna Magnani: Mamma Roma

  • The Garden Cinema 39 Parker St WC2B 5PQ (map)

Pier Pasolini wrote and directed this melodrama for Anna Magnani who, as Mamma Roma, plays a former prostitute struggling to lead a new life in Rome selling vegetables with her 16-year-old son Ettore. When Ettore finds out she’d been a prostitute he goes off the rails, steals a radio and ends up in prison. The return of her old lover, the-pimp Carmine, provokes a near-operatic tragedy.

DIRECTOR: Pier Paolo Pasolini

RUN TIME: 106 minutes

CAST: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

The screening will be introduced by Lorenzo Tamburini, CinemaItaliaUK's in-house film expert.

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SPECIAL OFFER
if you add a ticket for Mamma Roma and L’Amore to your basket while booking on The Garden Cinema website, both tickets will be reduced to £7.50.
 

Earlier Event: June 18
Celebrating Anna Magnani: L'Amore
Later Event: June 25
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