estellehemsley &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:estellehemsley @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:55:25 +0200 America America (Elia Kazan, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wy9f <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" New Amsterdam/div div class="img" America America (1963)/div div class="caption" Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) and other passengers on the ship. Their faces are reflected in a glass pane, showing dozens waiting at what appears to be Ellis Island. DP: Haskell Wexler./div div class="txt" A film about New York to commemorate the incorporation of New Amsterdam. The official Bales' rule states the year 1624, but that is the year of settlement, and even that is one year off. To cut a long story short, New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653. "My name is Elia Kazan. I am a Greek by blood, a Turk by birth and an American because my uncle made a journey." ### – Elia Kazan, voice-over America America tells the story of director Kazan's grandfather through the life of the Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis), who was adamant to start anew, in New York./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewAmsterdam #EliaKazan #StathisGiallelis #FrankWolff #HarryDavis #ElenaKaram #EstelleHemsley #ManosHatzidakis #HaskellWexler #drama #NewYork #USA #1960s/div /section ]]>

America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)

Feb

2

New Amsterdam

America America (1963)

Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) and other passengers on the ship. Their faces are reflected in a glass pane, showing dozens waiting at what appears to be Ellis Island. DP: Haskell Wexler.

A film about New York to commemorate the incorporation of New Amsterdam. The official Bales' rule states the year 1624, but that is the year of settlement, and even that is one year off. To cut a long story short, New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653.

“My name is Elia Kazan. I am a Greek by blood, a Turk by birth and an American because my uncle made a journey.”

– Elia Kazan, voice-over

America America tells the story of director Kazan's grandfather through the life of the Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis), who was adamant to start anew, in New York.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewAmsterdam #EliaKazan #StathisGiallelis #FrankWolff #HarryDavis #ElenaKaram #EstelleHemsley #ManosHatzidakis #HaskellWexler #drama #NewYork #USA #1960s

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