Mama Roma (1962) Italian Xvid 1cd - Eng Subs - Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo [DDR]

2015.09.18


Mama Roma (1962) Italian Xvid 1cd - Eng Subs - Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo [DDR]

CAST:-


Anna Magnani: Mamma Roma


Ettore Garofolo: Ettore


Franco Citti: Carmine


Silvana Corsini: Bruna


Luisa Loiano: Biancofiore


Paolo Volponi: Priest


Luciano Gonini: Zacaria

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini


Produced by Alfredo Bini


Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini


Running time 106 minutes


Country Italy


Language Italian

SYNOPSIS:- Mama Roma (1962)


An ex-prostitute, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani), tries to start a new life selling vegetables with her 16-year-old son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo). When he later finds out that she was a prostitute, he succumbs to the dark side with the petty theft of a radio in a hospital and goes to prison.

PRODUCTION NOTES:-


The lingering shots of Ettore, strapped to a prison bed in his underwear are seductive and haunting, as are shots of Mamma Roma walking at night, joined by different men in conversation, one after another in one continuous shot.

Pier Paolo Pasolini said that he wasn't able to rebirth Anna Magnani as she was in Roma, città aperta because, as an actor, she chose to maintain her independence from his artistic visions. "If I had to shoot the film over, I would have still chosen her", said Pasolini later.

Mamma Roma was dedicated to the director of Roma, città aperta (1945), Roberto Rossellini. Anna Magnani plays a pregnant woman who is killed in the middle of Rossellini's film. Rossellini represents "good Italians" through the deaths of a priest, Don Pietro, who helps a communist group and a mother who tries to help her communist husband. People who killed these "good Italians" are Nazis. On the other hand, Pasolini comments on how the country changed from 1945 to 1962 in Mamma Roma. First of all, characters in the film are whores, pimps, and thieves. None of them are people who work for people. Secondly, in the beginning of the film, Mamma Roma brings three piglets to the wedding of her old pimp, Carmine. Carmine calls them "Brothers of Italy". Then, Mamma Roma calls one of them a slut. Contrasting with Rossellini's patriotic film, Pasolini brings irony into his film. Ettore dies in an Italian prison even though he doesn't die from extreme physical torture. Pasolini shows that the corruption of society is not because of outside forces like Rome under Nazi occupation. The problems are actually created within the society or the people in it.

There is a shot of the landscape of Rome in the end of Mamma Roma. The dome of a church (Basilica di San Giovanni Bosco) sticks out from the rest of the tops of buildings. The scene shares a similarity with the aforementioned Rossellini's film again. In Rossellini's film, the dome of St. Peter's appears as the background when boys are walking on the street dragging their sadness. They seem like they are walking toward St. Peter's or "the house of God". On the other hand, in Pasolini's film, when Mamma Roma learns of Ettore's death, she goes back to her apartment and tries to jump out of the window. She sees the dome of a church and stares at the dome. The image of her and the dome switches back and forth. Her stare gets more intense. The film ends.



TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-


Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4


Video Bitrate: 820 kbps


Video Resolution: 640x352


Video Aspect Ratio: 1.818:1


Frames Per Second: 23.976


Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3


Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz


Audio Streams: 2


Audio Languages: Italian


RunTime 106 mins


Subtitles: English


Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]