Summary:
Filmmaker Elia Kazan based America, America on the early life of his Greek-immigrant uncle. Stavros Topouzoglow is the young immigrant, whose starry-eyed impressions of America are soon compromised by reality. Despite the casual cruelties, betrayals, and career setbacks, Stavros forms strong and lasting friendships which help him weather the worst. An Oscar went to the painstakingl... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Stathis Giallelis - (Stavros Topouzoglou)
Frank Wolff - (Vartan Damadian)
Harry Davis - (Isaac Topouzoglou)
Elena Karam - (Vasso Topouzoglou)
Linda Marsh - (Thomna Sinnikoglou)
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Review:
Elia Kazan was born Elia Kazanjoglous in Turkey to Greek parents. His family then immigrated to America to find a better way of life. Inevitably, things were more complicated than that. It is a situation that Kazan returned to often in his movies, perhaps nowhere more personally or successfully than in America, America. Based on his own ... Continue >>

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