America America (1963) on Netflix
Approved19632h 54mAdventureDrama
In Ottoman Turkey, Stavros Topouzoglou and his Armenian friend Vartan Damadian plan to reach America. Stavros is sent to Constantinople with his family's fortune to settle them there.
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Plot summary
The Topouzoglou family lives in a poor Cappadocian Greek village in Ottoman Turkey, below Mount Erciyes. Stavros Topouzoglou and his Armenian friend Vartan Damadian plan to go to America together. After a Hamidian massacre against the Armenians, the family decides the Greeks will not stay safe from the pogroms, and sends Stavros to Constantinople to settle them there. His father Isaac entrusts him with the family's whole fortune, the donkey included, to buy a share in the carpet business of his cousin Odysseus. A vagabond attaches himself to the young man on the road, and an Ottoman official takes the property. Stavros arrives in Constantinople with nothing.
Cast
- Harry Davisas Isaac Topouzoglou
- Elena Karamas Vasso Topouzoglou
- Gregory Rozakisas Hohannes Gardashian
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about America America (1963)
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- As Elia Kazan moved the troubled production of America America from Turkey to Greece, customs officials confiscated the film cans they believed held finished footage; a last-minute switch of labels between exposed and unexposed stock saved the footage.
- Elia Kazan based America America on the struggle of his own uncle, Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou, to work his way to America.
