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America, America

America, America (alternative title The Anatolian Smile) is a 1963 Elia Kazan film about two young men, an Armenian and a Greek, who escape from their small town in Anatolia during the Armenian Genocide of the early 1900s. Dreaming of a better life in America, they encounter many struggles and life-changing experiences during their difficult trek to the promised land. It was directed and written by Kazan, from his own book, and stars Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff (actor), Elena Karam and Lou Antonio.

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:00:08

My name is Elia Kazan.

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I am a Greek by blood,
a Turk by birth...

:00:13

and an American,
because my uncle made a journey.

:00:40

This story was told me over the years
by the old people in my family.

:00:45

They remember Anatolia, the great
central plateau of Turkey and Asia.

:00:50

And they remember the mountain,
Erciyes, standing above the plain.

:00:57

Anatolia was the ancient home
of Greek and Armenian people.

:01:02

But 500 odd years ago, the land
was overrun by the Turks...

:01:06

and from that day the Greeks
and Armenians lived here...

:01:10

but as minorities.

:01:12

The Greek subject people.

:01:15

The Armenian subject people.

:01:22

They wore the same clothes
as the Turks...

:01:25

the fez and the sandal...

:01:27

ate the same food,
suffered the heat together...

:01:31

used the donkey for burdens.

:01:35

And they looked up
to the same mountain...

:01:37

but with different feelings...

:01:40

for, in fact, they were conqueror...

:01:43

and conquered.

:01:48

The Turks had an army.

:01:50

The Greeks and the Armenians
lived as best they could.

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