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Mamma roma [videorecording] / una produzione Arco Film ; prodotto da Alfredo Bini ; scritto e diretto da Pier Paolo Pasolini. - Special ed. - [Irvington, N.Y.] : [United States] : Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [c2004] - 2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. - Criterion collection ; 236 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 236. .

DVD release of a 1962 motion picture. Special features: Interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, Tonino Delli Colli, and Enzo Siciliano ; original theatrical trailer ; poster gallery ; Pier Paolo Pasolini (58 min. ; 1995) / Ivo Barnabo Micheli ; La ricotta (35 min. ; 1963) / Pasolini ; a 32-page booklet featuring excerpted interviews with Pasolini on Mamma Roma and La ricotta, and essays by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana and Pasolini biographer Enzo Siciliano.

Photography, Tonino Delli Colli; editor, Nino Baragli; music, Carlo Rustichelli. Photography, Tonino Delli Colli; editor, Nino Baragli; music, Carlo Rustichelli.

Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini.

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.

MPAA rating: Not rated.


DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.


In Italian with English subtitles.

ISBN: 0780028007

Standard No.: 037429187425

Publisher. No.: MAM040 Criterion Collection

Source: Midwest Tapes http://www.midwesttapes.com

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mothers and sons--Italy--Drama.
Prostitutes--Italy.--Drama.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Italy--Social conditions--1945-1976--Drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Feature films.