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America, America

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Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis) is a young Greek man living in an area under Turkish oppression, who wants nothing more than to go to America. Stavros travels to Constantinople, enduring difficulties along the way that lead to the loss of all his family's funds. Rejecting any possibility for money, work or marriage that doesn't involve sailing to America, he defiantly hangs on to the dream, but his extreme determination may cost him his life.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Elia Kazan
  • Producer:
    Elia Kazan
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  • Production Co:
    Warner Brothers
  • Sound Mix:
    Mono

Cast

Stathis Giallelis
as Stavros Topouzoglou
Frank Wolff
as Vartan Damadian
Harry Davis
as Isaac Topouzoglou
Elena Karam
as Vasso Topouzoglou
Estelle Hemsley
as Grandmother
Gregory Rozakis
as Hohanness Gardashian
Lou Antonio
as Abdul
Salem Ludwig
as Odysseus Topouzoglou
John Marley
as Garabet
Joanna Frank
as Vartuhi
Paul Mann
as Aleko Sinnikoglou
Linda Marsh
as Thomna Sinnikoglou
Robert H. Harris
as Aratoon Kebabian
Katharine Balfour
as Sophia Kebabian
Katherine Balfour
as Sophia Kebabian
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Critic Reviews for America America

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (3)

  • Elia Kazan gives a penetrating, thorough and profoundly affecting account of the hardships endured and surmounted at the turn of the century by a young Greek lad

    February 3, 2012 | Full Review…

    Variety Staff

    Variety
    Top Critic

  • The entire movie benefits from its authenticity, geographical, historical and emotional, and may be seen as one of the peaks of Kazan's career.

    February 3, 2012 | Full Review…

    Geoff Andrew

    Time Out
    Top Critic

  • In his unswerving insistence upon America as Redeemer, Kazan has made a kind of miracle play.

    March 16, 2020 | Full Review…

    Joan Didion

    Vogue

  • America America goes on for three hours, which is too long. The characters are picturesque and predictable.

    August 12, 2019 | Full Review…

    Dwight MacDonald

    Esquire Magazine

  • Kazan allows the viewer to be removed from the film but also engage in the emotion of the moment

    October 14, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Kevin Carr

    7M Pictures

  • A nicely told, occasionally highly emotional story, but the main purpose of the film seems to be to give writer-director Elia Kazan an excuse to pat himself on the back.

    January 31, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
    TV Guide
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Audience Reviews for America America

  • Mar 30, 2016
    "America, America" starts in Anatolia in 1896 where Stavros(Stathis Giallelis), a Greek, and Vartan(Frank Wolff), an Armenian, scrape by on bringing ice down from the mountains to sell in the market. As bad as things are them for right now, they are about to get a whole lot worse with the Turkish authorities using the excuse of a fire at the central bank to crack down on the minorities, leaving Vartan dead and Stavros frustrated to try and leave for America. After giving his shoes to a beggar on the road, he returns home at the end of the day. By then, his father(Harry Davis) has seen the writing on the wall, too, intending to send Stavros to Constantinople to seek out his cousin in order to pave the way for the rest of his family. Every family has a story to tell about how they came to live in America and this is Elia Kazan's personal one about his uncle, grandly told in a suitably epic fashion, with Haskell Wexler's sublime cinematography, that does get a little muddled towards the end. Along the way, we get a great sense of what it was like at the time and what it took to undertake such an arduous journey,(just getting to Constantinople is risky enough) which does not change a person so much as the people they encounter along the way. If you know the history of the region(specifically the Armenian genocide and what little I gleaned from Jeffrey Eugenides' novel 'Middlesex'), then you know what happens next and the timing could not have been any better for Stavros and family.
    Walter M Super Reviewer
  • Mar 30, 2016
    really underappreciated film - near masterpiece
    Bob S Super Reviewer
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