America America

“One man's struggle to the golden shore”

Somewhere on the road to Istanbul, the money a whole family scraped together is gone, and Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis) is the one who was trusted to carry it. Elia Kazan, adapting his own book about an uncle who made the crossing, follows the young Anatolian Greek into the city with nothing left but the dream of America. Every coin he earns toward the passage is taken from a family that has already given up its fortune, and the family still waits at home.