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A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricte herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Arco Film, Criterion Collection (Firm), Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975, Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973, Garofolo, Ettore, Citti, Franco, Corsini, Silvana, Micheli, Ivo Barnabo, Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
Format: Video DVD
Language:Italian
Language Notes:In Italian with optional new and improved English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : Criterion Collection ; [2004]
Edition:Special ed. double-disc set.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 236.
Subjects:
Foreign films.
Mothers and sons > Italy > Drama.
Prostitutes > Italy > Drama.
Italy > Social conditions > 1945-1976 > Drama.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Feature films.
Description
Summary:A middle-aged prostitute attempts to extricte herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Mamma Roma offers an unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy.
Item Description:DVD release of a 1962 motion picture.
A foreign film (Italy).
RSDL dual-layer edition.
Aspect ratio 1.85:1; enhanced for widescreen televisions.
New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound.
Accompanying booklet features excerpted interviews with Pasolini on Mamma Roma and La ricotta, and essays by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana and Pasolini biographer Enzo Siciliano.
Special features: disc 1. Poster gallery ; Original theatrical trailer -- disc 2. Three interviews about Pasolini, featuring Bernardo Bertolucci (assistant director to Pasolini on Accattone), Tonino Delli Colli (cinematographer on eleven of Pasolini's fourteen films), and Enzo Siciliano, author of Pasolini, a biography ; Pier Paolo Pasolini (1995), a 58-min. documentary by filmmaker Ivo Barnabò Micheli, covering the career of the controversial artist ; La ricotta (1963), a 35-min. film by Pasolini starring Orson Wells as a director who sets out to make a film about the Passion of Jesus.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
Format:DVD; Dolby digital, mono.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Photography, Tonino Delli Colli ; editor, Nino Baragli ; music, Carlo Rustichelli.
ISBN:0780028007