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Once Upon a Time in America(Movie, 1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 49min | Genres: Drama, Crime
Once Upon a Time in AmericaRating: 4.2/5 (with 24682,468 votes) 972
Once Upon a Time in America (Italian: C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 epic crime film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The film is an Italian–American venture produced by The Ladd Company, Embassy International Pictures, PSO Enterprises and Rafran Cinematografica, and distributed by Warner Bros. Based on Harry Grey's novel The Hoods, it chronicles the lives of best friends David "Noodles" Aaronson and Maximilian "Max" Bercovicz as they lead a group of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence as Jewish gangsters in New York City's world of organized crime. The film explores themes of childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, and broken relationships, together with the rise of mobsters in American society. It was the final film directed by Leone before his death five years later, and the first feature film he had directed in 13 years. It is also the third installment of Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, which includes Once... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Once Upon a Time in America

Silver Nugget for The Best Foreign Film

About Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Italy, United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Harry Grey
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Yiddish (YI)
Translated into 36 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/12/1984 (World premiere: 05/23/1984)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Once Upon a Time in America - DC"
"Érase una vez en América"
"Suuri gangsterisota"
"Il était une fois en Amérique"
"Κάποτε στην Αμερική"
"C'era una volta in America"
"Het Gebeurde in Amerika"
"Era Uma Vez na América"
"美國往事"
"Once Upon a Time in America Extended"

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