Mamma Roma (1962) – Filming Locations
Drama · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · Starring Ettore Garofolo, Anna Magnani
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.
Where was Mamma Roma filmed?
- Rome, Italy, Rome – Mamma Roma establishes her street trade and begins her new life after returning from the countryside. Pasolini filmed extensively in Rome's poorest working-class neighborhoods, capturing the authentic urban poverty and marginal society that forms the film's social backdrop
- Rome, Italy, Rome – Mamma Roma works the streets and encounters various characters in her world of petty crime and survival. The Tiber riverside district provided Pasolini with authentic urban locations for depicting the survival economy and street life of Rome's underclass
- Rome, Italy, Rome – Ettore is imprisoned and Mamma Roma visits him in the final sequences. The real historic Roman prison serves as the setting for the film's tragic climax, emphasizing the social inevitability of imprisonment for those born into poverty