America, America

feature film, drama, USA, 1963

DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan

America, America

CAST:
Stathis Giallelis (Stavros Topouzoglou),
Frank Wolff (Vartan Damadian),
Elena Karam (Vasso Topouzoglou),
Harry Davis (Isaac Topouzoglou),
Salem Ludwig (Odysseus Topouzoglou)

SCRIPT:
Elia Kazan (based on his own book)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Haskell Wexler

MUSIC:
Manos Hatzidakis

EDITING:
Dede Allen

Synopsis:
This film is based on Kazan’s book inspired by the travels of his uncle, who immigrated to New York from Turkey. Growing up in a small village at the end of the 19th century as a member of a Greek minority constantly terrorized by the Turkish majority, the young man is aware that he has little chance in life. Therefore his father gives him the family’s treasure and sends him to Constantinople. But the boy’s true wish is to go even farther away: America.

b/w, 174’

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