- What time is it? - It's time. Get up, they're working.
How much for a ticket?
STAVROS: What? - How much for a ticket?
STAVROS: One hundred and 10.
- And you've brought together by now? - What do you care?
- How much? STAVROS: Four pounds.
- Four pounds? STAVROS: Yes.
- Tell me. How long do you expect to live? STAVROS: Longer than you.
That load is for an animal.
Get an animal.
Hey, hamal.
Hey, you.
America, America, you.
Don't take it. Don't take it.
Come on.
[MEN SHOUTING]
Hey, hey, hey.
- What time is it? - You have time.
I can't stay awake.
I keep falling asleep.
Don't worry, you'll be dead soon.
- What's the baby weigh now? - What?
- How much? - Seven pounds.
Small money.
Well, there are two kinds of money. Small money and big money.
Small money is a whore.
You look at her coins, she's been in everyone's hands.
You wake in the morning, she's gone.
Now, then, there's big money, like what you need.
You're going to America.
GARABET: Now, what you need is big money.
You like that?
Behold, you're human.
[LAUGHS]
That's all there is, women.
[GARABET LAUGHS]
Now, then, big money.
Big money is fertile, it procreates.
How, I don't know.
But it reproduces itself. Every time you look, there's more.
But there's only two ways men like us can get big money.
Steal it, or if you're young, marry it.
But you can't get it by work.
You study me.
Worked like an animal from the first day that I could walk and carry.
So behold, the lowest form of life.
Now, if I were you...
...there are many very ugly girls with very rich fathers.
Let's get ourselves a couple of those little mousetraps.
Now, come on, boy, you need it.
I need nothing.
Ah, you need it.
After work, you come to my place. I have one there for you.
Something nice.
I haven't...
I have never been with...
I don't know exactly what to do.
[CHUCKLES]
They show you all that there.
America, America.
Hey, hamal.
Come on, come on.
GARABET: What happened? - My money.
The girl, where is she? I've got to find her.
Nine months. Nine months I work, you know.
[MAN SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
GARABET: Come here, you.
[GIRL SCREAMS]
- Who did you give his money to? GIRL: The owner, downstairs.
The owner?
GIRL: Please don't hurt me.
He was going to put me out on the street.
The street.
You want me out on the street?
What am I without a room and a bed?!
I'm an animal without a bed and a room!
[CROWD MURMURING]
GIRL: I'm an animal without a room and a bed!
If you go to whores, you must expect to be robbed.
Three months she didn't pay.
She'll owe him again next week.
Three months she didn't pay. Coffee?
We're enjoying ourselves here. Come on, get out.
Get out, before I get angry.
WOMAN: He's a saint of patience with her. - Get out, now.
She owed it to me.
[SOBBING]
GARABET: If you were marching, you could've put together 110 pounds...
...the way you did the 7 that way. The human body, it has that strength.
What's the use of this?
Tell me that. What's the benefit of this crying?
You wanna kill her? Then why don't you go kill her?
It'll do you good.
It's time for you to grow up and see the truth.
"Big things"? Ha.
"Big things. They're gonna be proud of me."
STAVROS: Don't.
"They're gonna be proud of me. Someday, they're gonna be proud."
You're nothing now and you never will be.
STAVROS: I am, I am, I will, I am.
I am leaving this place! There is a better place!
GARABET: It's all the same. - No.
Since you left home, have you met among Christians one follower of Christ?
Have you met among human beings one human being?
- You. - Me?
Did you look at me? You don't know me. You don't know what I am.
You don't know who I am.
I have one idea for this world.
- Destroy it and start over again. MAN: Shh!
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
[MAN SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
He's with us.
There's too much dirt for a broom.
It calls for fire. It needs a flood.
"I don't know where to look further, cousin, I looked everywhere.
He's disappeared from the face of this black world."
GARABET: The chief victims of the Turkish Empire are the Turkish people.
MAN 1: Turkey will be a great nation. STAVROS: After I'm dead, I'm not interested.
GARABET: He still thinks there's a clean life somewhere.
America, huh? Heh!
Look who's going to America.
MAN 2: Ptou! America. - America?
Don't tell me about America.
- I was there. - Tell him.
MAN 3: I helped build one of their buildings.
I fell and then no one needed me.
If you have money in America, you're somebody.
If you have no money, it's just like here.
Life is for the rich.
Anyone who wants to go, go now.
- Again, after the explosions, we separate. MEN: Yeah.
We meet one month from today.
On the streets, we don't acknowledge each other.
- Is that clear? MEN: Yes.
[GUNFIRE THEN MEN SCREAMING]
The stairs, the stairs.
[MAN MOANING]
[WOMAN SOBBING]
Look at him. A boy.
All he wanted was something.
- What, freedom? What? - Shh, shh.
- You. You know when a man is dead? SOLDIER: I can tell when a mule is dead.
DOCTOR: It's the same. With this one it's a matter of hours.
Go on. Throw him on the wagon.
SOLDIER: I'm off duty. DOCTOR: Go on, throw him in.
He's finished.
[WOMAN CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
They won't go. It's too heavy. They won't go.
SOLDIER 1: Hit them and they'll run. SOLDIER 2: Hit them and they'll go.
Cousin.
Cousin. Cousin.
Cousin.
Oh, my God. Thank God.
Poor little boy, poor little boy, poor little boy.
Don't say anything.
Damn fool boy. Maybe now you'll do what I tell you.
Please, don't say anything to my father.
Please.
I have plans.
You have plans, you... My ruination.
[GIGGLING]
Katie, shh.
WOMAN: Katie, behave yourself. Shh.
[MAN CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Now you look like money.
Come on over. Break it up now.
There, in the fourth row, you see? The fourth row.
Not the little girl, the one at the end there.
The one on the other side.
Turn back, they're looking at us.
The one in the middle. See the girl in the middle?
That's the one.
Eh? Eh?
So there remains this question:
Is his father able to bring with the boy a substantial amount of money?
You're talking about money?
That's something we must talk about.
- We have questions too. - Yes, but you know our business.
You have four daughters, there's a necessary division.
For each, there will be enough.
Enough, enough.
BOY: That's him.
He's handsome.
He's here.
Aleko.
[WOMEN MURMURING]
[DOORBELL RINGS THEN WOMEN OOH]
Button up, for God's sake.
ALEKO: Welcome, welcome to my home. Step in, won't you?
STAVROS: Stavros Topouzoglou. ALEKO: Glad to have you.
You're never going to be able to make me look pretty...
AUNT: Stop frowning, you'll get a line.
ALEKO: Thomna!
Would you care for a coffee?
Thank you.
THOMNA: Yes, Father?
Our guest will try your coffee.
- How would you like it? - No sugar, thank you.
- You heard. - Yes, Father.
ALEKO: Please sit down.
He has a very strong voice.
This house has been in our family for three generations.
[WOMEN MURMURING]
Very nice.
This is my brother, Seraphim.
May you live forever.
I kiss your mother's hand.
This is my brother, Protermos.
I kiss your mother's eyes.
This is my brother... Anoola!
Keep those women quiet in there. We can't hear each other with all that...
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Shh!
ALEKO: All day, from the kitchen, and clear her out.
All day long.
[ALEKO SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
I've asked her a thousand times.
Women.
God made the mistake of giving them tongues.
MEN: Yes, yes.
Stavros, Stavros.
[MEN LAUGH]
[LAUGHS THEN COUGHS]
AUNT: Has he money? THOMNA: I don't know.
Your father will find that out. Come on.
You look beautiful.
May I know the nature of your father's business?
- My father? - Yes.
- Oh, my father. - Yes.
My father is in various lines, different businesses.
ALEKO: Oh, that's fine. That's fine.
A great variety of enterprises is very wise, very wise.
- Hmm. MAN 1: Oh, yes, very.
Yes, of course.
Yes, of the really rich people, they are in many different business.
One goes up.
MAN 1: It's never just one. MAN 2: Of course.
One goes down.
One goes up, one goes down.
Excellent.
That was Thomna?
Thomna, yes.
STAVROS: Oh.
SERAPHIM: Hmm. Hmm.
STAVROS: Oh.
ALL: Oh!
They say that a long nose is a sign of virtue.
With a nose like that, virtue is inevitable.
They have money though.
Listen to this.
"They insisted I give up the work I was in."
- Did he ever say what work he was in? - No.
"And so, what could I do? I accepted a position with their firm."
ISAAC: Smart. Smart.
Over there. Over there.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Come on.
HOHANNESS: Help me.
Anything. Anything.
Get out of here.
Close the gate.
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
My shoes.
Those are my shoes.
Don't you remember me?
Don't be afraid.
Those are my shoes.
I remember you.
We made it to here, eh?
Never mind.
See? No one stops us.
We are going to get there.
I used to think so, but now I don't know.
Don't give up. Don't give up now.
You're just hungry.
Are you hungry?
I'm always hungry.
Eat, eat. I have money.
You want another pilaf?
Waiter.
Here, bring another pilaf, immediately, and more bread.
MAN: I see hamals are eating here now.
Put some of these in your shirt.
- No. - And another piece.
You'll need it later. No one is looking.
You have to look out for yourself in this world, you know.
The only bad times I had...
...was when I was soft, or human.
You can't afford to be human.
People take advantage.
For instance, you...
You smile all the time.
People take it... Forgive me for saying so.
People take it as a sign of weakness.
In America, well, that will not be necessary.
I've decided.
My daughter shall come to you with 500 Turkish pounds.
Hmm?
- I do not accept. - Why?
Aleko, Aleko.
Why, my boy?
What do you want?
One hundred and 10 pounds.
[MEN LAUGH]
There's something about you I don't understand.
But have it your own way. The main thing, she wants you.
So...
- One hundred and 10 it is, right? STAVROS: Right.
ALEKO: Satisfied? - Yes, that is satisfactory.
ALEKO: Then smile.
Don't you ever smile?
When shall it be? Two months.
The sooner, the better.
Two months. Two months.
And one more thing.
[GROANS]
ALEKO: It is our understanding that you will be living here with us.
You will not take our daughter away from us.
I will not take your daughter away from you.
Of course. Ha, ha.
At last, I have a son.
[BELCHES]
ALEKO: Too much food.
Too much.
I tell those women not to put so much food on the table.
They don't listen to me.
Always too much.
- Anoola! WOMAN: Tidy the table.
ALEKO: Too much food. Always.
First I get fish, then chicken, then comes lamb.
Two would be enough. They don't listen.
SERAPHIM: Too much.
[ALEKO GRUNTS]
- Oh! So you're gonna leave me, huh? THOMNA: Oh, baba.
Oh, baba.
[ALEKO GROWLS THEN THOMNA SCREAMS]
[THOMNA LAUGHS]
ALEKO: So one more week.
One more week and I'm gonna lose my daughter.
- Are you happy? THOMNA: Oh, baba.
Baba, I'm frightened.
That's natural.
- But you like him? - Yes.
Yes.
But he's so mysterious.
Maybe he's frightened too.
What does he say to you when you're alone?
THOMNA: Nothing.
ALEKO: You mean, he never talks to you?
THOMNA: Never.
Yes, once. He showed me some pictures in a book.
- Pictures? - Of a city in America.
Very tall buildings, and he told me all about them.
How tall they were and everything, as if he'd been there.
He told me he once had a dream to go there.
I didn't know what to say.
Baba.
- Baba. - Oh.
Don't worry, don't worry.
All boys have dreams.
I had the same dreams once...
...when I was a boy, to go to new lands, start a new life.
But...
People think one way when they're penniless...
...and another way when the money comes.
Baba, I wish he were more like...
ALEKO: Like me? - Like you.
[ALEKO CHUCKLES]
There is no man like your baba, no man anywhere.
[BOTH LAUGH]
ALEKO: Don't worry, we'll make him forget all that other.
I'll give him money and you'll give him babies...
...and your mother put flesh on his bones and he'll grow up and he'll be a man.
Yes. Oh, yes.
Oh, baba, I feel better.
Oh, baba.
Look at him. Look at him.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Go ahead, let it out. Let it out.
Let it out. You've got a stomach, let it out.
Come on, come on, don't be ashamed.
Let your stomach out, it's natural.
- You didn't take your coffee. - Huh?
Anoola, no supper. I shall not eat again until tomorrow.
You'll feel different in a few hours.
I do not wish to see food again today. Now, that is final.
THOMNA: He always says that.
- Katie, what are you showing him? - Pictures of the island.
Oh, the island? Oh...
The island is beautiful, we have a beautiful place there.
My boy, we'll go there this summer.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, we have two donkeys, we'll pack them and go for a picnic.
He's talking about food already.
By next summer, I will have digested this meal.
There are beautiful places for a picnic.
- Flying insects. ALEKO: What?
Oh! Anoola doesn't like flying insects.
- Buzz, buzz, buzz. - Buzz, buzz.
We'll have the picnic on our porch.
Wonderful porch, it's screened.
A king would be lucky to have it.
You and I will sit there, Stavros.
Plenty of women to look after us.
And we'll wait, and the years will pass.
ANOOLA: Only nine months.
ALEKO: I know it takes only nine months.
Whatever it takes, we'll wait.
Nine months, 10, so long as it's a boy.
A son, and then another.
Two sons first. After that, I don't care.
- You can't order. - I know you can't order.
Who should know better?
But give me two sons.
Give me two sons and I'll give you the business, everything.
My share, I mean. My brothers are there, but there's plenty for everyone.
Just give me two sons, and then watch the years go by.
The winters here, summers on the island.
Pretty soon your eldest will come to you and say:
"Father, I've met a girl, I'd like to get married."
And you'll say, "How much money has she got?
What dowry will she bring?"
You'll get heavier and Thomna will get bigger...
...in certain places, especially.
- Like Anoola. - What?!
I didn't say where, heh, heh.
And watch the years pass.
And you'll get old, I'll be old...
...and we'll sit here together, you and I.
And we'll drink and we'll eat...
...and we'll unbutton the tops of our trousers...
...and we'll take a nap, right here, side by side, a little nap.
The women will... from the kitchen.
And then we'll wake and play a little backgammon.
And soon it'll be time for a little ouzo and some olives...
...a little cheese.
And all my children and all your children will be here together.
[SIGHS]
And only you and I will talk, Stavros...
...because I taught my women respect.
And when you talk, everyone will be quiet.
And when I talk, even you will be quiet.
And when I die...
...we will die properly.
Surrounded by women looking after us.
How does that sound to you?
That's all a man should want.
[WOMEN SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
I've a little surprise for you both.
Come, follow me.
Come.
Women. Women, quickly, follow me.
Hurry, now.
Hurry, now. Come.
Come on. Quick.
Come on, come on.
Come, now.
[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Quickly. Quickly now.
- Who lives up there? - I don't know.
Hurry, hurry. For God's sake, come on now.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
Shh! Shh!
Stavros.
Take it.
It's yours. Go ahead.
ANOOLA: God bless you.
Come on.
For you.
[GASPS]
[LAUGHING]
Katie, control yourself.
- Stavros. This is your bedroom. ANOOLA: Stavros.
Stavros, see this here.
Everything here belonged to someone.
- Baba. ALEKO: What?
Thank you, but please, take everybody away now.
I want to find out how he likes it.
ALEKO: I will, my heart.
Out, out, out.
Everybody out. Come on now, get out.
Katie, stop bothering Stavros.
KATIE: He likes me. STAVROS: She's not bothering me.
[THOMNA LAUGHS]
Stavros.
Look.
You have a nice family.
Your father is a king.
A king.
Sometimes I think we're too many girls.
May God forgive me, I've often wish...
Oh, look, it's baba, when he had hair.
I've often wished that my sisters were brothers.
I like your family.
- Do you like me? - Yes.
Would you tell me if you didn't?
No, I wouldn't, but I do like you.
The way a husband should like a wife?
I'm sorry, you don't have to say anything to that.
- Shall we go? - No, let's stay here.
I've never talked to you without my family.
But we have.
If you say so.
- When? - Several times.
Of course.
Stavros, please don't take offense at what I'm gonna say...
...but it seems to me...
...that you have some worry.
Some secret that you're not...
No.
Not that I'll expect you to tell me everything...
...or anything, if you don't want to.
I want everything to be the way you want it to be.
Do you hear me?
Yes, Thomna.
I wish I were prettier for you.
Don't worry about that.
But I'm a good girl.
You'll see, I am a good girl.
If you just tell me what you want me to do...
...I'll do anything you tell me to do.
If you just tell me.
[THOMNA SOBBING]
STAVROS: Yes, Thomna.
Thomna, please stop crying.
Stop crying, please.
Please stop.
THOMNA: I'm frightened.
STAVROS: Of what?
THOMNA: Of your silence.
You say something.
Say something to me.
Say something, please. Say something.
Something, something, something.
I'm sorry. I...
I've been nervous all morning.
I had a dream last night.
Can I tell you about it?
If you like.
Do you want to hear it, or don't you?
Do you want to hear it?
- Would you like a glass of water? - No.
I'm sorry, I'm ashamed of myself.
I'm acting like a...
Like a young girl.
I dreamt...
...that we had a child.
The baby looked like you...
...with fuzzy brown hair all over his head...
...and soft all over.
And the back of his neck was straight and proud like yours.
The little thing was hungry, so I opened myself to it.
And he came to me with his mouth.
And there was no milk.
I had no milk.
And he pulled at me and pulled at me.
I don't think I can tell you the rest.
Turn your head away just a little bit.
The baby had teeth.
The teeth hurt.
The baby turned into you.
I mean...
It was you.
And...
...you pulled back.
And you looked at me with such disappointment.
And then you walked away...
...and I never saw you again.
Do you believe in dreams?
STAVROS: Yes.
Will you do that?
STAVROS: Yes.
Stavros, what are you saying to me?
Stavros.
America?
Yes.
And you...?
I still don't understand.
You mean you want it so much?
You have to be what I am...
...to understand.
What will you do now?
I don't know, something.
Stavros.
If you want to take our money...
...and go to the United States of America...
No.
I'm yours, Stavros.
What I have is yours.
How can you be like that?
I have no reason to live except you.
I just wish I were prettier for you.
STAVROS: How can anybody be like you?
Thomna.
Don't trust me.
For your happiness, don't trust me.
THOMNA: You're all I have.
STAVROS: I can't do different.
Don't trust me.
Stavros.
It will pass, baba said so.
Once we have children, you won't feel the same way.
You can't. How could you?
What?
Stavros, it will pass. I'll count on it.
Don't count on it.
Where are you go...? Wait.
Wait one year, and then if...
Of course, it's up to you to decide.
I won't say anything to my father, Stavros.
I'll wait.
Wait.
I saved these 30 pieces of Sarouk, 9-by-12, for you.
- Ask the boys. PORTER: Yes, Mr. Sinnikoglou.
ALEKO: In the back of the store, like eggs under a hen.
Come on, show it. Come on. Come on.
This rug's woven...
...ideal for the home of the biggest American millionaire.
Now, feel that.
You know rugs better than I do but feel this, you've never seen anything like it.
- Yes, yes, yes. I know. - The best.
Mrs. Kebabian, Mrs. Kebabian.
I beg you, put your hand on this Sarouk, feel it.
She doesn't know about the rug business except how to live off it.
Well, if only for her pleasure. Feel it.
- Can I see you later alone for a minute? ALEKO: Stavros.
Will you wake up, for God's sake, and bring this rug over here?
What's the matter with you today?
Please, don't inconvenience yourself.
- I don't like rugs. - Oh.
Well, Mrs. Kebabian, may I present the future king.
One day, all this will be his.
Stavros Topouzoglou, my future son-in-law.
Stavros, kiss Mrs. Kebabiars hand.
You don't have to kiss my hand, boy.
Oh, of course, of course. In America, you don't do that.
[ALEKO CHUCKLES]
Would you please show him how they do in America, Mrs. Kebabian?
Believe me when I tell you that this boy's whole dream...
Mr. Sinnikoglou, don't sell me, sell my husband.
He's going to buy.
He's only first torturing you.
[ALEKO LAUGHS]
Well, may I offer you some sherry?
It's very sweet and very light sherry.
No, no, thank you.
- It's really very light. - No, no, thank you, no.
Show him how they do in America, Mrs. Kebabian.
Go on.
Well...
Here.
No, not like that, take hold of it.
Good, now, shake it like this.
[ALEKO LAUGHING]
You do this too, in America?
- I mean, men to women? - Of course.
ALEKO: His whole dream, to go to America. Imagine.
- People have done it. ALEKO: But not a boy like this.
Men. Aratoon, where are you going?
Aratoon. Yorgo! Cologne!
Time to eat. My stomach is my clock.
[ARATOON CHUCKLES]
ARATOON: All right, I'll take 25 pieces. ALEKO: Take them all.
You're American?
Yes, I was born here...
...but Mr. Kebabian brought me to America 25 years ago when we married and...
What?
ARATOON: Sophia, I'm going.
- I'm not. - Oh, but you must.
You must. They're waiting for us at Abdullah's.
- My packages. - It's all right. I spoke to the chef myself.
Later, please.
You should've seen his look when I told him that Mr. and Mrs. Aratoon Kebabian...
Do you know that everything that you ever ate there...
...or remarked on is ready?
She must come, she's gotten thinner.
She doesn't eat. I married a woman, now look.
I don't enjoy eating when I'm not hungry.
See how she talks back? They ruined her.
The day she became an American citizen, ruined.
The Declaration of Independence was politics only, not for women.
[LAUGHS]
Come, no hope on her.
- Sophia, I'm leaving the carriage for you. ALEKO: Aratoon.
Stavros, help her with the packages.
Aratoon. Aratoon.
SOPHIA: Why, yes. Thank you.
Thank you.
[HUMMING]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
BERTHA: Hello, madam.
Bertha, get Mr...
- Topouzoglou. - Some lunch.
No, no, don't trouble.
SOPHIA: Will you put the packages on the sofa, please?
Will you see what Mr. Topouzoglou will have?
STAVROS: No, too much trouble, too much trouble.
No.
No, it's not any trouble.
STAVROS: I don't enjoy eating when I'm not hungry.
Well, uh...
All Greeks are taught to refuse twice.
It's the third refusal that's to be believed.
Can I get you something? You've been so kind.
- That's a bureau? - Yes.
- A whole bureau? - Yes.
- And it travels with you? - Yes.
- Can I...? - Oh, please, come in.
Here.
- Oh... - And down there, look, that's for shoes.
- America, America, eh? - Ha-ha-ha.
- Do you have any magazines, newspapers? - Yes.
- Pictures? - Yes.
- Would you like to see them? - Can I?
Yes, I'll show you The Saturday Evening Post...
...and the Ladies' Home Journal.
[BERTHA HUMMING]
No. No more, Mrs. Kebabian.
- Is he still here? - Yes, Mrs. Kebabian.
Good.
[HUMMING CONTINUES]
Come.
[DOOR OPENS]
You still here?
He's still here.
BERTHA: Good evening, Mr. Kebabian.
SOPHIA: He's going to have dinner with us. - Don't put your things on my bed.
He's going to show us some dancing.
Do you know someplace where we can see some dancing?
You do, don't you?
Yes.
[MEN CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]
[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Tomorrow I show you beautiful girls.
Enough. Enough.
Enough. No, no, no. No.
I pay, I pay. I pay.
I pay.
Pay. Pay.
[INSTRUMENTS PLAYING]
SOPHIA: I was 18 when my father said, "Marry him."
I'd never been permitted to see that wonder, a man, alone till him.
The day after the wedding...
...he took me to America...
...and before I knew how, I had two sons.
After that, what?
He'd had what he wanted of me.
There I was, an old woman or so...
...with two sons...
...a husband with a good business, who played cards every night.
I have never known...
...a young man.
I've never lived my 20th year or my 21st.
My 22nd year is still inside me, waiting like a baby to be born.
Do you understand?
How could you understand?
[GASPS]
[ARATOON SNORING]
Let's take him home.
CLERK: Third-class, Kaiser Wilhelm, 110 pounds, please.
STAVROS: First give me the ticket.
[BOYS CHUCKLING]
BOY 1: Psst!
CLERK: Yes, sir? - I'm Mr. Agnastis.
CLERK: Yes. Yes, sir.
AGNASTIS: Do you have my tickets ready? CLERK: Oh, yes.
AGNASTIS: I'm here with my eight boys. CLERK: Oh, yes, let me find your papers.
STAVROS: You. You're going, eh?
Eh? Didrt I tell you? Didrt I tell you don't give up?
You look good. Tell me.
- Come, tell me what happened. - That man is taking us all.
AGNASTIS: Eight boys, yes, in one cabin. That was the understanding.
I've done this every year, eight boys in one cabin...
...you've always allowed it, always.
- Only now, suddenly, objections. CLERK: Just a moment.
- You're all going? BOY 2: Yes.
BOY 3: Yes.
He has a place to shine shoes in New York City.
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
He's paying our passages.
- What do you do? BOY 2: We shine shoes.
We work for him.
Two years, without pay.
Would he take another?
- No. - No.
Many boys want it, but he'll only take eight.
I came by the store once to tell you...
...but I saw you got into a carriage with some rich man.
You looked very busy.
Very busy and very big, plenty to eat, so I thought...
- It's wrong. - That right and wrong is for the rich.
- You can afford it, I can't. - You come from a good family.
Yes, who are now waiting for one piece of good news.
- One piece of good news. - But your father, Stavros.
I don't want to be my father, I don't want to be your father.
I don't want that good family life, that good family life.
All those good people, they stay here and live in this shame.
The churchgoers who give to the poor, they live in this shame.
The respectable ones, the polite ones, the good manners.
But I am going.
No matter how. No matter, no matter.
I am going.
I wrote you to come here...
...because I wanted to speak you the truth before I left.
The truth of what I am, so you don't go on thinking about me.
You took off your...
That was for your father.
Ah.
What's that?
Oh.
- Are you taking that with you? - Of course.
You can't count on anybody or anything.
And with this, in America, I can always make to eat.
Oh, Stavros.
I know that I'll never again find anyone like you.
THOMNA: Oh, God.
[SOBBING]
What will happen to you?
I believe.
I believe that, in America...
I believe I will be washed clean.
[PEOPLE SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
SAILOR: Herr Topouzoglou.
Would you like some tea or would you like some rum?
Madam prefers when you smile.
SOPHIA: I've been waiting.
[ARATOON SNORING]
Bertha...
...how do flies get on a ship?
[PEOPLE SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Mr. Agnastis, what's that over there? Is that land?
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
SOPHIA: Stavros.
[ARATOON SNORING]
[PEOPLE CLAMORING NEARBY]
- What's the disturbance? - Long Island.
Oh, well.
- How long did I sleep? - A couple of hours.
SOPHIA: Stavros. STAVROS: Shh!
I'll tell Mrs. Kebabian you're awake.
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
- Mr. Kebabian is awake. - Correct.
- She'll be in as soon as she's pretty. - I have a long wait. Heh, heh.
Bertha, casino.
Bertha.
Now, come, Bertha, just the truth.
Stavros!
STAVROS: Hohanness!
HOHANNESS: Stavros.
- America. STAVROS: We're here.
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
Stop it.
Stop it, Hohanness. Look.
Look, I brought you some candy again.
Here, take it, come on.
That's one thing about that lady friend of yours.
She has the most wonderful candy.
[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
First thing tomorrow...
...I'll get one of those straw hats that the Americans wear.
First thing tomorrow.
So tomorrow, since you're without protector or guaranteed employment...
...the authorities will ship you back, back where you came from.
And now, may I give you some advice?
Go fall on your knees before Aleko Sinnikoglou...
...shed a tear or two, however false, kiss his hand and so on.
He'll take you back, he has no choice.
And from this unpleasantness, learn this lesson...
...when you force a woman to choose, she'll choose money, eh, Emilio?
[CHUCKLING]
ARATOON: Well?
- Well? - She's a good person.
Oh? She's in the next room now, her ear to the door...
...hearing every word. Why is she silent?
Well?
I'm curious, what are you gonna do now?
You know, I've never seen a face like yours except in a cage.
I have a feeling there's nothing you'd stop at, is there?
Anything.
Have you any honor?
Honor? My honor is safe inside me.
What? Safe inside you?
[CHUCKLING]
Boy, whatever you ever once were, you're now a whore.
A boy whore for sale, do you understand?
[STAVROS HUMMING]
Now, stop that humming.
Yeah, I've seen hundreds like you.
Boys who leave home to find a clean life and just get dirtier.
Will you stop that humming?
Tell me, have you looked in the mirror recently?
Do you suppose if your father saw you at this moment...
...he'd recognize his son?
- Stop it! Stop it! ARATOON: Go back to your room.
What are you doing to him? What are you doing to him?
He's done more for me than you've done in your entire life.
I won't let him do that to you, I won't.
I won't let him do that to him. I won't let him do that to him.
I won't. I won't.
It's all right.
Go on, now.
Go on.
- Don't let him do that to you. - Go on, now.
Don't worry about me.
SOPHIA: Bertha, I won't let him do that to him, I won't.
- Mr. Kebabian. - Ah, he's going to speak.
Yes, sir.
I have nothing to say.
What can you say? The truth is the truth.
You know what you are.
Yes, sir.
Except, Mr. Kebabian, I have been beaten...
...robbed, shot, left for dead.
I have eaten the sultars garbage and driven the dogs off to get at it.
I became a hamal...
Now you understand yourself, a hamal.
Yes, sir.
But now I am here.
Do you imagine anyone will be able to keep me out?
I'll see to it. I'll see to it that they send you back.
STAVROS: No!
Please, don't.
BERTHA: Help. Help.
- Help. STAVROS: Please.
Don't say or do anything, please.
Please.
- Swear! Swear you don't say anything! ARATOON: He attacked me.
He tried to kill me.
- You criminal. STAVROS: Don't say it.
This is America, hamal, do you hear? This is America.
[PUNCHING]
What will you do now, hamal?
What will you do now?
Hohanness?
Where are you, Hohanness?
- Hohanness? HOHANNESS: Hm?
STAVROS: Are you there?
HOHANNESS: Oh, yes.
Is my father still here?
Your what? Your father?
Who is that?
HOHANNESS: That's the doctor.
You're in the ship's hospital.
My father said:
"That's enough.
I am ashamed of you.
I am ashamed of what you've made of yourself.
Come back, you must start again."
[STAVROS CHUCKLES]
It hurts when I laugh...
...but can you imagine making this journey all over again?
HOHANNESS: Shh.
It was a bad dream, go to sleep.
Can you imagine, Hohanness?
Better stay with me.
I'll be here when you wake.
[BOAT HORN BLARING]
It's still there.
You know the truth?
The thing I'd like most in the world...
...is to make this journey all over again.
Just to start it over, all over again.
That's the truth.
[COUGHING]
How is he?
He's imagining things.
Well, no wonder.
He was hit on the head once too often.
- You'd better watch over him. - I will.
That boy, he might do something crazy.
They are sending him back.
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
That's a bad cough you've got yourself.
Better not let the officials hear that when they come onboard tomorrow.
They'll send you right back. Good night.
[BOAT HORN BLARING]
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Stavros, Stavros, they're coming.
OFFICIAL: Excuse me.
Coming through.
Good morning. Good mor...
Excuse me. Good morning.
- Morning, doctor. - Good morning.
OFFICIAL: This your hospital? DOCTOR: Right through there.
I'll wait for you here.
As soon as the inspection is over, run to me.
See? It's the excitement that brings it on.
So close your ears.
Imagine you have just sent them their passage...
...and your mother and father come to you in gratitude.
Can you imagine that scene?
Yes, yes.
Then imagine that scene.
Go on, now.
What are you going to do?
- I have my own plans. - What?
Can you swim that far?
They say a man learns what is necessary.
- lf you can't swim, you can't swim. - You better go.
DOCTOR: This way, sir. Thank you.
Come on, go on. Come on.
OFFICIAL: Excuse me.
Coming through, please. Excuse me.
I'll pay you back someday.
Let's speak the truth.
We'll not see each other again after tomorrow.
You'll forget me, and I, I'll be where I am.
Go on, now.
Don't forget, cover your ears.
OFFICIAL: These the fellas?
Yes, same as last year, eight fine boys, perfect health...
...all from fine families, employment guaranteed.
STAVROS: Remember, it's the excitement that brings it on.
It's the excitement that brings it on, so close your ears.
[COUGHING]
OFFICIAL: Thank you, thank you. Wish you all the best of luck, boys.
All right, boys, everything is all right.
Mr. Allen?
- You'll come to see us, I hope. OFFICIAL: I'll drop in once in a while.
- You know where our place is. - Yes.
Stavros.
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
Stavros.
[GRUNTS]
[HOHANNESS COUGHING]
MAN: I paid everything for this and I'm not sick.
[HOHANNESS WHEEZING]
I mean it, Stavros, if you go, I go, and I can't swim.
I'll hold onto you. Don't do something crazy.
Don't.
MAN 1: I thought your wife was coming along.
MAN 2: She was but she was really too sick and too old.
Too old.
- In the end she gave up hope. MAN 1: I know, I know.
STAVROS: Hohanness. Come.
Quick. Hurry.
HOHANNESS: What? STAVROS: I'm going.
Here, you will give this to our cousin in Constantinople.
His name, see, and the address here.
He will send it to my father.
You understand?
[INSTRUMENTS PLAYING AND PEOPLE CHATTERING]
WOMAN: Oh!
That was simply awful.
[PEOPLE LAUGHING]
WOMAN: Third class is so romantic. MAN: They've got the best part of the ship.
[STAVROS YELLS]
- We'd better go. - No.
Charles.
[STAVROS SCREAMING]
Shh. No, don't do that.
[BOAT HORN BLARING]
[WATER SPLASHES]
MAN: Attention, steerage passengers.
Attention, steerage.
Immediately after the disembarkation of the first class...
ARATOON: He's a friend of my wife.
MAN: all third-class passengers will be examined at Ellis Island...
...by the American authorities in charge.
Sort of a nappier sort.
BERTHA: Here.
From Mrs. Kebabian.
MAN: Attention, steerage.
Immediately after the disembarkation of the first class...
...all third-class passengers will be examined at Ellis Island...
Fifty dollars? My, my.
...by the authorities in charge.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
- Next. - Hello.
- Oh, look who's here. - Eight, all told.
OFFICIAL 1: Eight more little ones. They keep coming, they keep coming.
How are all you little slaves?
[AGNASTIS CHUCKLES]
Scared to death.
Jack, who was that fellow, a Greek we're watching for?
Criminal assault, was it?
OFFICIAL 2: On this sheet here.
OFFICIAL 1: Stavros Topouzoglou.
- Any of you go by that name? - That fellow, he died last night.
You, what's your name? You.
- Hohanness. - Not you, you.
He talks, doesn't he? What's your name?
Hohanness Gardashian.
You wanna be an American?
Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir.
OFFICIAL 1: The first thing to do is to change that name.
You want an American name, boy?
- Hohanness Gardashian. - I know, I know.
- Hohanness. OFFICIAL 1: That's enough.
Hohanness, that's all you need here.
Hohanness.
Here.
Can you read?
Joe Arness.
[AGNASTIS CHUCKLES]
Hohanness, Joe Arness.
Joe.
- Joe. AGNASTIS: Arness.
Arness.
Joe Arness.
Good.
Joe Arness.
You like it?
Joe Arness, Joe Arness. Hm?
Good, good.
Well, Joe, you're reborn.
You're baptized again and without benefit of clergy.
Next.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
AGNASTIS: They take money everywhere.
But did you see him jump when I spoke?
Hey, Joe Arness?
Hey, Fred, what the hell is that?
Just something one of them left behind.
MAN: Hey, you. You there.
Keep moving, you're blocking traffic.
Come on, now. Yes, you. Move it along, let's go.
ISAAC: "And here I am.
I reached America."
[PEOPLE CHEERING]
Shh.
And here is $50.
How much is that, $50?
In Turkish money, that is...
That is...
He saved himself.
How did he earn so much money so quickly?
America, America.
He saved himself.
Read it again, the last part.
"In some ways, it's not different here..."
- Shh. Not so loud. - There's no one.
You never can tell, go on.
"It's not different."
How quickly he's forgotten what it is here.
"But let me tell you one thing, you have a new chance here.
For everyone that is able to get here, there is a fresh start.
So get ready, you're all coming.
You're coming.
I'm working for that, to bring you all here.
One by one."
Hey, this is a business here.
Move on.
STAVROS: How's that?
Here you go, Joe.
STAVROS: Next.
Come on, you. Let's go, you.
People waiting. People waiting.
ISAAC: Come on, you.
Let's go, you.
People waiting.
KAZAN: And he did bring them.
It took a number of years, but one by one, he brought them here.
Except for his father.
That old man died where he was born.
This film was made in Turkey and Greece.
It was photographed by Haskell Wexler.
It was edited by Dede Allen.
The production designer was Gene Callahan.
The costuming by Anna Hill Johnstone.
The music was composed by Manos Hadjidakis.
All under the management of Charles Maguire.
And here are the actors:
Stathis Giallelis.
Frank Wolff.
Harry Davis.
Elena Karam.
Estelle Hemsley.
Gregory Rozakis.
Lou Antonio.
Salem Ludwig.
John Marley.
Joanna Frank.
Paul Mann.
Linda Marsh.
Robert Harris.
Katharine Balfour.