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.