Elia Kazan
18 films
The fifteen directing credits the catalogue holds for Elia Kazan fit between 1945 and 1963. The AFI's summary of A Face in the Crowd has Marcia seeing the vitality and the charisma inside a drifter and giving him the name Lonesome; by the same page Kazan confirmed that he and the screenwriter Budd Schulberg built the character on Arthur Godfrey along with Billy Graham and Huey Long. America America came out of a novel of his own, and the AFI's credits tie the film to the novel of the same name, which came out in New York in 1962. The summary has Stavros Topouzoglou, a young Greek, deciding to emigrate to America when one of his closest friends is killed in 1896 for standing against Turkish oppression. The Berlinale's honorary Golden Bear was given to him in 1996.
Where to Start with Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan appears in 18 films in the Pulse of Cinema catalogue. The highest Pulse-rated are On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd, A Streetcar Named Desire, a strong place to start exploring Elia Kazan's work.
