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America America (1963) - (Movie Clip) Be What You Are

Troubled Anatolian Greek teen Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) visits his grandmother (Estelle Hemsley) outside town, who speaks of his dead grandfather, and who remains unconvinced he has the nerve to leave for the U.S.A, ca. 1896, in Elia Kazan's novelized family history America America, 1963.

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