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.
Elenco: Anna Magnani , Ettore Garofolo , Franco Citti , Silvana Corsini , Luisa Loiano , Paolo Volponi , Luciano Gonini , Vittorio La Paglia , Piero Morgia , Franco Ceccarelli , Marcello Sorrentino , Sandro Meschino , Franco Tovo , Pasquale Ferrarese , Leandro Santarelli , Emanuele Di Bari , Antonio Spoletini , Nino Bionci , Nino Venzi , Maria Bernardini , Santino Citti , Renato Montalbano , Lamberto Maggiorani , Renato Capogna , Mario Cipriani , Renato Troiani .